Russia asks China for military aid on Ukraine: US media
Moscow also seeks economic assistance from Beijing, anonymous officials say
Beijing has declined to directly condemn Moscow for launching its invasion, and has repeatedly blamed Nato’s ‘eastward expansion’ for worsening tensions between Russia and Ukraine, echoing the Kremlin’s prime security grievance. – AFP pic, March 14, 2022
WASHINGTON – Russia has asked China for military and economic aid for its war in Ukraine, US media reported yesterday, hours after the White House warned Beijing would face severe “consequences” if it helps Moscow evade sanctions.
US officials told media that Russia had requested military equipment and support from its key ally.
Moscow also asked Beijing for economic assistance against the crippling sanctions imposed against it by most of the Western world, the New York Times said, again citing anonymous officials.
The officials declined to explain exactly what Russia had requested, or whether China had responded, according to the reports.
A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington told multiple outlets “I’ve never heard of that” when asked about the alleged requests.
The reports came just a few hours after the White House announced a high-level US delegation would meet with a top Chinese official in Rome today.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Yang Jiechi, the Chinese Communist Party’s chief diplomat, “will discuss ongoing efforts to manage the competition between our two countries and discuss the impact of Russia's war against Ukraine on regional and global security,” National Security Council spokesperson Emily Horne said yesterday in a statement.
Beijing has declined to directly condemn Moscow for launching its invasion, and has repeatedly blamed Nato’s “eastward expansion” for worsening tensions between Russia and Ukraine, echoing the Kremlin’s prime security grievance.
Sullivan made a round of Sunday talk shows to say the White House was “watching closely” to see whether China provides material or economic support to Russia to help it evade the punishing impact of sanctions.
“It is a concern of ours, and we have communicated to Beijing that we will not stand by and allow any country to compensate Russia for its losses from the economic sanctions,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union” show.
Sullivan said that while he did not wish to “brandish threats” against major economic rival China, “we are communicating directly, privately to Beijing that there will absolutely be consequences for large-scale sanctions-evasion efforts.”
WASHINGTON – Russia has asked China for military and economic aid for its war in Ukraine, US media reported yesterday, hours after the White House warned Beijing would face severe “consequences” if it helps Moscow evade sanctions.
US officials told media that Russia had requested military equipment and support from its key ally.
Moscow also asked Beijing for economic assistance against the crippling sanctions imposed against it by most of the Western world, the New York Times said, again citing anonymous officials.
The officials declined to explain exactly what Russia had requested, or whether China had responded, according to the reports.
A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington told multiple outlets “I’ve never heard of that” when asked about the alleged requests.
The reports came just a few hours after the White House announced a high-level US delegation would meet with a top Chinese official in Rome today.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Yang Jiechi, the Chinese Communist Party’s chief diplomat, “will discuss ongoing efforts to manage the competition between our two countries and discuss the impact of Russia's war against Ukraine on regional and global security,” National Security Council spokesperson Emily Horne said yesterday in a statement.
Beijing has declined to directly condemn Moscow for launching its invasion, and has repeatedly blamed Nato’s “eastward expansion” for worsening tensions between Russia and Ukraine, echoing the Kremlin’s prime security grievance.
Sullivan made a round of Sunday talk shows to say the White House was “watching closely” to see whether China provides material or economic support to Russia to help it evade the punishing impact of sanctions.
“It is a concern of ours, and we have communicated to Beijing that we will not stand by and allow any country to compensate Russia for its losses from the economic sanctions,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union” show.
Sullivan said that while he did not wish to “brandish threats” against major economic rival China, “we are communicating directly, privately to Beijing that there will absolutely be consequences for large-scale sanctions-evasion efforts.”
kt comments: Is threatening China through the media communicating "privately"?
Beijing said this past week that its friendship with Russia remains “rock solid” despite international condemnation of Moscow, and has expressed an openness to help mediate an end to the war. – AFP, March 14, 2022
Indeed the BEST comment to all these desperado fart is
ReplyDelete“I’ve never heard of that”!!
Wakakakakaka…
Putin's economy is collapsing, and will have to suck Xi's c*ck to survive.
ReplyDeletePlease suck harder, not sucking hard enough!
Russia also running low on ballistic missiles ( the non-nuclear type ) and severely constrained to manufacture new ones, especially the electronic guidance systems, without which the Iskander and Kaliber will be no more than glorified WW 2 V-2 unguided rockets.
Wow… wow…
DeleteU r so shamelessly parading the scenes in our wet dream!
Mmmm… including that sucking act!
Wakakakaka… who r u performing on?
Old moneyed under, have yr (dis)info sources ever told u about the growing public discontents currently simmering within US/EU?
DeleteThe inflationary pressures r NOW hitting hard on all their economic fronts by the over-used quantitative easing mechanism in adjusting their fiscal constraints.
The covid-19 pandemic & now the Ukraine crisis have further exerted tremendous weights on all their sopo-economic matrices.
The rising energy & crops prices will further adding oil into this glowing fire!
No doubt there r elementary considerations, by US & EU, to use the Ukraine crisis to divert these foreseeable home crises from their citizen's attention. But, the prolong of the war in Ukraine would eventually overwhelm their public bleeding-heartish compassion for the war & refugees. Their immediate attentions would fall back to the hardships they r facing within their immediate surroundings!
Burden would most likely seeing the Democrat losing the majority of 435 seats House of Representatives.
EU would most likely going into severe recession fueled by rising energy prices.
Thus, yr know-nothing fart of Putin's economy is collapsing is a Pyrrhic victory for US/EU. The coming collapse of the US/EU sopo-economic structures, as known to their pampered & materialistic citizen, would cast a long shadow worst than the Great recession if the 30s!
& Russia will survive, bearing in mind it's a socialist country where hardships imposed by outside forces, countries &/or nature, has nurtured the citizen's mindset of overcoming them.
BTW, have anyone of u ever think about the legality & sanctity of the sanctions imposed on Russia?
ReplyDeleteOn what authority do USofA & his myrmidons, willingly &/or otherwise, exercise all those sanctions?
Where is the role of UN in exercising it's role as the ultimate Guardian of earthlings?
Or as usual, what the Yankee says, goes?
Political reality or just meme-ed subservience for all those Yankee followers, in the name of AMERICAN justice!
US practically controls the UN, World Court, World Bank, World Health. All for their self agenda.
DeleteSo what is legality to begin with?
Idiots who are endorsing the Barbaric Russian invasion of Ukraine want to talk about the legality of sanctions ?
DeletePodah !
I'm playing the same game & methodology as yr Yankee idol!
DeleteBut can u see the FACT as a known-nothing loud mouth?
Obviously NO?
Podah?
Pariah to u IS better!