China has been supporting Russia since the start of the war against Ukraine despite appearing to be a neutral country, a US State Department spokesman said Thursday.
“China has provided diplomatic support, political support, economic support, has repeated and repeated Russia’s propaganda, its lies, its distortions and untruths in an effort to protect Russia,” said Ned Price. at a press conference.
The head of the US State Department said he does not believe the Asian giant has “stayed away” from the conflict, which this Friday marks a year since it began, arguing that on the contrary it has “given significant support to Russia “.
“Over the past year they have tried to show the world this veneer of neutrality,” but, he added, “under international law, no responsible country can be neutral” in a conflict like this.
“Our concern, of course, would be if China went a step further in providing deadly aid to Russia. That’s not something we’ve seen yet, but at the same time, we don’t think they’ve taken that off the table.” , so that is why we remain prepared to sanction any entity or company in any country in the world,” he said.
Price agreed with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who warned China on Monday that if it supplies arms to Russia, it would have “a real problem in its relations with many other countries, not just the United States.”
“We are concerned that China is considering supporting Russia’s war effort in Ukraine with lethal aid, something we are watching very, very closely,” the US foreign policy chief said.
Last weekend at the Munich Security Conference, allies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) issued a formal warning through a letter to China’s foreign policy chief Wang Yi.
The letter was handed to him by several Western policy makers, including Blinken himself.
On Tuesday, Wang met in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who underlined that “cooperation in the international arena between the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation (…) is of great importance for the stability of the international situation” .
Source: DN
