China said on Wednesday that a UN resolution expressing grave concern over widespread abuses committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority “cannot help to ease the tensions and solve the problem”. China is positioning itself as a mediator in the dispute between Bangladesh and Myanmar over the Rohingya refugee crisis and announced a three-stage solution to the humanitarian calamity. Far from representing a new era in which China upholds victims’ rights and seeks accountability for abuses, China’s intervention in the Rohingya crisis is intended to protect its own narrow interests, writes Nicholas Bequelin for The New York Times.