National security adviser Jake Sullivan has said that with the emerging “alignment of autocracies” as the world takes sides in the Russian–Ukraine war, China faces a defining moment in cementing how the world will view it. If it takes the “darker path,” he said, it will no longer have a way forward as the world’s second-largest economy.
“China has a choice to make,” Sullivan said on Dec. 17 at the 92NY in conversation with Eurasia Group and GZERO Media President Ian Bremmer. “It can either continue to tighten those links militarily, diplomatically … [or] end up in a circumstance where it is really part of an axis….