CNN's Frederik Pleitgen travels to the Russian border city Rostov-on-Don, near the separatist-controlled Donbas region, where Russian military troops movement signals what the US says a larger offensive toward Ukraine
Analysis from CNN's Simone McCarthy
On the surface, there may be parallels: both Taiwan and Ukraine are Western-friendly democracies whose status quo could be upended by powerful autocracies." with the island it claims as its territory despite having never governed it — and has not ruled out doing so by force.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has said Taiwan could"empathize" with Ukraine's situation given its experience with"military threats and intimidation from China."that a confident China under leader Xi Jinping may make a bold move to take control of Taiwan, and Beijing will likely be carefully monitoring the situation in Ukraine for signs of how Western powers respond — and just how severe those responses are.
But there are limits to the parallels, and to how much Beijing could glean from the spiraling crisis in Ukraine when it comes any future actions toward Taiwan.
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