Commentary As the U.S.-led Western world continues to fail in pressuring China to condemn Russia and its military operations in Ukraine, one is left to wonder: Are our policymakers just going through the political motions, repeating talking points that are passed down through think-tanks and academia, or are they truly just downright naïve? China won’t condemn Russia. It wasn’t going to do it before, it’s not doing it now, and it will never do it in the future. The seeming inability for our leaders to comprehend—again, purposefully or not—this fact leads to deaf-mute policy responses that allow Beijing to falsely represent itself as the responsible actor in various scenarios. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has resolutely presented itself as the intermediary between the Western world and Russia, pretending to be the facilitator of peace. Its pronouncements refuse to condemn Moscow while simultaneously denouncing NATO expansion and careless U.S. foreign policy, …