The United States has voiced its concern on Thursday as China may help Russia with military equipment.
This comes as the advance of Russian troops seems to have been halted at several locations in Ukraine.
The United States is concerned that China is “considering directly assisting Russia with military equipment to use in Ukraine,” US secretary of state Antony Blinken said.
In a call on Friday, President Joe Biden will tell China’s President Xi Jinping that Beijing “will bear responsibility for any actions it takes to support Russia’s aggression, and we will not hesitate to impose costs,” Blinken added.
“We have made clear our deep concerns about China’s alignment with Russia and the potential implications and consequences of that,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
Friday’s call, she said, “is an opportunity for President Biden to assess where President Xi stands. There’s been, of course, rhetorical support — or the absence of clear rhetoric and denunciation, or the absence of denunciation — by China of what Russia is doing. This flies in the face, of course, of everything China stands for, including the basic principles of the U.N. Charter, including the basic principles of respect for sovereignty of nations. And so the fact that China has not denounced what Russia is doing in and of itself speaks volumes.”
(With inputs from agencies)
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