By Ben Aris in Berlin China’s failure to show up for Ukraine’s Swiss peace summit in mid-June was a major setback in Kyiv’s attempts to set a new benchmark for the international support of its military struggle with Russia and an attempt to rally the Global South to its cause. Rather than increase Russia’s isolation, the summit highlighted the increasing polarity amongst the world’s nations and drove more of the Global South more clearly into the Sino-Russian camp. The peace summit in Switzerland was envisioned by Ukraine as an event for heads of state (or at least senior officials) from all o…