News Analysis President Joe Biden announced new sanctions on Russia after Vladimir Putin recognized two breakaway provinces in Donbas as independent states, and maneuvered Russian forces into the territory. What has flown under the radar, according to some experts, is how the Chinese regime is learning and gaining from the unfolding crisis in Ukraine, and how profoundly the lessons it learns will affect the future contours of the international order. “Putin seeks to undermine the liberal international order,” said Michael McFaul, a professor of international studies at Stanford University. “[Russia is] the third biggest power in the world,” McFaul added. “[Putin] understands that they’re the third biggest. But he has deliberately allied himself with China, the second biggest, most powerful country in the world, to balance against the United States.” McFaul made the comments during a Feb. 23 webinar of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based …