all this we want to pull in now i'm theresa fallon. she's the founder and director of the center for russia. europe, asia studies. she joins me from brussels. it's good to see you again. let me ask you about one ye. he told putin today that crises offer opportunities. what opportunities do you think the war in ukraine can offer to both russia and china? where i think it's becoming quite clear that both russia and china had strategic alignment, their interest coincide, and they are challenging the international order. so i think that the chinese character where there is crisis, there is opportunity, even though this war has taken much longer than either putting or she jumping ever envisioned. they are trying to see how they can make that are kind of dreamer, global governance and changing international order work, even though put in a peer is very, very weak. at this point, china is a apparently that the stronger of the 2. it says that it's worried about the conflict escalating and their speculation that she's been paying a will present

theresa fallon, for joining us about. thank you. now, nato saxon general has averaged at last skate her. we consider its decision to suspend its role in nuclear arms treaty from brussels are damascus, sir james bayes has more. there's real concern here at nato headquarters about president putin's decision on new start ever since the 70s. there have been limits on strategic nuclear weapons from the u. s. and russia, and in fact, after the cold war, both sides reduced their nuclear stock piles. this though, is the last treaty left and the nato sec general young stilton berg raised his alarm during a news conference. i asked him if it made the world a more dangerous place, more nuclear weapons and ha, and less arms control makes the world more dangerous. and that's the reason why in need to we are rosul hard or to engage russia on issues related to on control and wanted while i so supported the new start. and also why i'm calling on russia on today to reconsider. it's a decision to suspend its participation. the new, the start agreemen

so let's bring in theresa fallon, she's director at the center for russia europe. asia studies enjoys you now via skype from munich misspelling could help you with us on al jazeera. there's no doubt that again, like last year, the media conference was dominated by ukraine and, and the russian invasion. i mean, what's your assessment of whether other conflicts or major geopolitical and strategic issues were overlooked or do those conversations happen away from the cameras? let's remember at last year munich, security conference, the u. s. had shared intelligence with many people and the officials. and there was kind of an optimistic buy and nobody wanted to believe that there was going to be war in ukraine. so one year on we're seeing more attention, but it took one year and a lot of fighting a lot of death to get this type of attention. i would say that in regard to your question, they do pay attention to other issues in the past, mr. the had an endo pacific panel is represented as from japan, south korea, australia and in the past that was like when people would leave and get a coffe