As Moscow intensifies its strikes in Ukraine, as the situation around Mariupol becomes untenable for civilians, Washington is trying a new strategy today: that of increasing the pressure on Beijing. Two Chinese and American diplomats are meeting this Monday, March 14 in Rome, and the United States intends to tell China the limits not to cross on their assistance to Russia.
With our correspondent in New York, Carrie Nooten
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spent his Sunday warning Beijing through the media that China cannot help Russia circumvent economic sanctions without consequences. To justify its suspicions, the Biden administration told the main American dailies yesterday that Russia would have asked China for help and military equipment in particular.
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These are the main messages that Jake Sullivan will convey to China’s top adviser Yang Jiechi in Rome later. The latter will then have two options: that of continuing to play the balancing act, keeping polite distances with Russia about the war in Ukraine to spare the United States and Europe, its two trading partners.
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Or that of unveiling a game that Washington increasingly fears – that of seeing China line up behind Russia on the invasion of Ukraine, hoping that this favors ” world order view that Beijing wants to see established in the long term.
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