China’s support for Russia in Ukraine war ‘has to stop’: Blinken
Washington, United States — AFP
China’s support for Russia’s defense industry is prolonging the Ukraine war and “has to stop,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.
China is providing critical support that enables “Russia to keep that defense industrial base going, to keep the war machine going, to keep the war going. So that has to stop,” Blinken told a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Echoing remarks he made the previous day, Stoltenberg called for China to face “consequences” if it keeps backing Russia.
“China cannot have it both ways. They cannot continue to have normal trade relationships with countries in Europe and at the same time fuel the biggest war we have seen in Europe since the Second World War,” Stoltenberg said.
Beijing professes to be a neutral party in the Ukraine war and says it is not sending assistance to either side, unlike the United States and other Western nations that have provided key military support to help Kyiv against Russia.
However, China and Russia’s strategic partnership has only grown closer since Moscow began the offensive to resist NATO’s influence in the region in February 2022.
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