Prepare for worse in Ukraine

The crisis in Ukraine is still unfolding, and there is the growing possibility of a civil war, as the desire of some eastern provinces for autonomy and independence is impossible to reconcile with Kiev's determination to safeguard national integrity, and Kiev's authority in the eastern region is seriously lacking and it is incapable of controlling the situation.

A civil war will be a calamity not only for Ukraine, but also the whole world, as it would bring the United States and Russia to an extremely dangerous confrontation. Therefore, the international community should strive to tame the fast-fermenting crisis, says an opinion piece in Beijing Youth Daily.

The root cause of the crisis can be traced back to the international financial crisis in 2008. The financial crisis suggested the decline of the West-centered global economic order. Western countries developed a sense of crisis, knowing that if they could not reverse this tendency, they would also lose their leadership in the political and security fields.