Russia’s war on Ukraine could not continue without support from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to one former Air Force General. “The real leverage point here is China,” Gen. Robert Spalding, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told The Epoch Times on March 3. “It’s not really the Russians, because the Russians could not do what they’ve done without the tacit approval of China.” “China basically told the Russians ‘don’t invade during the Olympics.’ They knew they were going to invade. They just didn’t want it to upstage the Olympics.” Spalding noted that the CCP was not joining sanctions issued by Western nations. He added that Russia’s dependence on the CCP to carry out its war on Ukraine raised a vital question: Whether the West had the economic fortitude to impose related sanctions on China. “The question here is whether or not we’re going to actually put economic …