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>A Ukraine base allows for influencing the entire east of Europe and Central Asia via the Black Sea.
Eastern Europe can be supplied through Balkans and Central Asia is directly connected to China, which means there's no reason to do any logistical hub on foreign territory.

Especially Russian territory that is cutted from rest of Europe by iron curtain 2.0. Even before war in Ukraine, China was searching for trade route that excludes Russia. Now that the worst that could happen, happened, it's a necessity.

Even if corruption in post-war Ukraine is tamed enough to build actual infrastructure (because it was absolutely awful), it's in nobody's interest to build infrastructure that connects it to territories taken by Russians.

Chinks won't get there either, just like they didn't invested in DMZ on North Korean side to do business with both Koreas (economic zone in Rason is as far from DMZ as possible). It's insane.