Minxin Pei Minxin Pei, professor at Claremont McKenna College, is a non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. How China views the Ukraine crisis 4 February 2022, 18:00 PM Beijing may be 6,500km from Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, but the geopolitical stakes for China in the escalating crisis over Ukraine’s fate could not be higher. 4 February 2022, 18:00 PM