In 1989 - as the Soviet Union was breaking up - China's hopes for change were crushed by tanks and automatic gunfire. end of list irannews.ru/ - irannews.ru But he added that if Rishi Sunak won, he would have his support. The leadership of the United States frames support for Ukraine as a matter of defending a “rules-based international order” that is under attack by rogue authoritarians. "I have reached the decision that senior experience at the heart of government matters most. "In the past, we could always count on China's leaders to be pragmatic about economic policy, and prudent in their foreign policy. We don't see that now," Ms Shirk says.