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Blinken tells Beijing: Stop boosting Russia or face punishments
Secretary of State Antony Blinken ended three days of meetings in China on Friday with a stark warning to China’s leadership — stop exporting materials that allow Russia to rebuild its industrial base or face U.S. sanctions.
Chinese state-owned firms are providing key components for Russia’s defense industrial base, including microelectronics and machine tools that have “a material effect against Ukraine” and constitute “a growing threat that Russia poses to countries in Europe,” Blinken told reporters in a press briefing in Beijing on Friday.
Blinken said that, in his meetings with China’s leader Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, he made clear that the Biden administration is running out of patience with Beijing’s refusal to stop that support.
“We’re looking at the actions that we’re fully prepared to take if we don’t see a change … we’ve already imposed sanctions on more than 100 Chinese entities, export controls and we’re fully prepared to take additional measures,” Blinken said.
Blinken said that there has been “important progress” in stabilizing U.S.-China relations since President Joe Biden’s meeting with Xi in San Francisco in November, but that key irritants — including tensions over trade, Taiwan and Beijing’s increasingly aggressive incursions into Philippine waters of the South China Sea — remain major obstacles.
Beijing didn’t give an inch. U.S.-China ties risk a “return to a downward spiral” in bilateral ties because “China’s legitimate development rights have been unreasonably suppressed and our core interests are facing challenges,” Wang told Blinken ahead of their meeting Friday.
Chinese state-owned firms are providing key components for Russia’s defense industrial base, including microelectronics and machine tools that have “a material effect against Ukraine” and constitute “a growing threat that Russia poses to countries in Europe,” Blinken told reporters in a press briefing in Beijing on Friday.
Blinken said that, in his meetings with China’s leader Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, he made clear that the Biden administration is running out of patience with Beijing’s refusal to stop that support.
“We’re looking at the actions that we’re fully prepared to take if we don’t see a change … we’ve already imposed sanctions on more than 100 Chinese entities, export controls and we’re fully prepared to take additional measures,” Blinken said.
Blinken said that there has been “important progress” in stabilizing U.S.-China relations since President Joe Biden’s meeting with Xi in San Francisco in November, but that key irritants — including tensions over trade, Taiwan and Beijing’s increasingly aggressive incursions into Philippine waters of the South China Sea — remain major obstacles.
Beijing didn’t give an inch. U.S.-China ties risk a “return to a downward spiral” in bilateral ties because “China’s legitimate development rights have been unreasonably suppressed and our core interests are facing challenges,” Wang told Blinken ahead of their meeting Friday.
[link:https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/26/blinken-beijing-russia-sanctions-00154556|
