China is “a lot more” than just a partner of Russia and it doesn’t want to “trigger” sanctions from America, Japan, Europe and Australia, says The Australian’s Will Glasgow.

He said Europe has now “completely rejected” Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“It’s been warned by the Biden administration very clearly that supporting Russia with military assistance would be crossing a huge red line for the US and its allies – and China hasn’t done that,” he told Sky News host Chris Smith.