Is China Cooling On Belarus's Lukashenka?
udf.byChinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with Alyaksandr Lukashenka at a signing ceremony during the Belarusian leader's visit to Beijing in 2016.
When Alyaksandr Lukashenka met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on February 22 to discuss financial and integration issues, there was one political card noticeably absent from the Belarusian leader's hand: China.