News Analysis As the Russian war machine trundled into Ukraine, the cacophony of international protest seemed to momentarily drown out the sound of Russian bombs falling on hospitals and kindergartens. The only thing louder than both that raucous displeasure and the sounds of the chaos and the death and the gore, was the silence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). For one week, the Russians have pushed their blundering conquest of Ukraine onward, making up for logistical errors such as tanks running out of gas and soldiers running out of food with sheer terror tactics including, reportedly, the blanketing of civilian infrastructure with illegal cluster munitions. Since then, the CCP has repeatedly refused to acknowledge that there is any “invasion” at all. Indeed, as the world was busy condemning the Russian warpath, the CCP was busy censoring voices critical of the invasion and supportive of Ukraine. As the West leveraged …