Beijing is “picking a side” and can’t claim to be neutral any more, the US ambassador to NATO tells POLITICO.
China is helping Russia meet its war goals in Ukraine by continuing to sell supplies such as drone technology and gunpowder ingredients to Moscow, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO said in an interview.
“The PRC [People’s Republic of China] cannot claim to be entirely neutral in this case, [and] they are in fact picking a side,” Julianne Smith told POLITICO on Tuesday. “I think when the PRC tries to portray itself as neutral, when it comes to this war, we don’t buy it.”
Smith said the United States was “increasingly seeing materiel support” from China to Russia, adding that this equipment — which can have both civilian and military uses — had played a critical role in helping Moscow achieve some of its aims against Ukraine.
China’s accurately balancing it’s profits. It can sell much more products to it’s primary markets if it gets resources from Russia and get some bonus on also selling sanctioned or illegal stuff with a huge margin. Can NATO or other structure condition it to back off a little? Probably yes since a lot of banks started to slow down or deny processing payments from russian corporations. Can it stop it completely? Probably not, but with every new barrier, the russian economy suffers from underdelivery and overpaying for a banal stuff.
NATO economies are probably much more profitable for China. If NATO wanted to get serious about supporting Ukraine we would be sanctioning not only Russia, but also countries that don’t sanction Russia. China and India would quickly change their policy on Russian trade.
Trump has started a trade war with China for no reason and Biden didn’t stop it either. China has no interest in doing favours to the West.
It would be so amazingly fantastic if the West had any moral credibility left, because it is true that in the case of Ukraine, the West is actually preaching the right thing: a rules based international order, where nations have the right to self determination and other countries don’t get to arbitrarily decide whether you have the right to exist. Like, exactly what Palestinians need.
The difference is that Ukraine didn’t attack russia… Palestine would wipe Israel and every jew off the planet if they had the ability to. Not saying what Israel is doing is right, but acting like the other side is without fault is disingenuous.
I would say it is a BIG difference in comparing wars
If Ukraine has a right to defend itself against foreign aggression, so does Palestine, especially after decades of genocide. Israel is the aggressor, just like Russia.
What’s bad about China picking a side? Ukrainians are fighting with US weapons… what Americans expect China to do? China it’s a communist country what y’all expect them to do? Y’all expect the US to finance both wars WO consequences?
One side clearly is the aggressor here. To pick their side is not a good look and makes other countries question China’s intentions.
US is an aggressor to China right now with all import/export bans. There’s no way in hell they will change their policies unless the US removes these bans.
China isn’t communist. China, Russia, USA et al integrated fascism as their system and now fight each other for power. This is just one alignment
Communism is fascism.
What about all the puppet countries that backed USA in the invasion of irak?? 🤔
Or like, when the US ruined every south American country with their evil CIA operations last century
Or, like when China was backing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Or when all the nato puppets were backing usa in its invasion of Irak, and Afghanistan, and Libya, and Syria, and Somalia and…
