China has been given a warning from the Pentagon – if they support Russia against Ukraine, there will be “consequences.”
“If China does choose to materially support Russia in this war, there’ll likely be consequences for China in that regard,” a senior U.S. defense official said during a Pentagon background briefing on Monday.
The Defense official didn’t elaborate on what those consequences might look like for China.
“We have seen China basically give tacit approval to what Russia is going by refusing to join sanctions, by blaming the West and the United States for the assistance we’ve given Ukraine, by claiming they wanted to see a peaceful outcome but essentially doing nothing to achieve it,” the official added.
On Monday, the Financial Times reported that China has “signaled willingness” to provide support to Russia, according to a briefing from the U.S to its allies.
This support would include surface-to-air missiles, drones, intelligence equipment, armored vehicles, logistics and support vehicles and all of these have been requested by Russia.
The report cited “officials familiar with American diplomatic cables,” but US officials didn’t allude to where they got the information from.
The US expects China to deny such plans, according to a report from Reuters, after a U.S official told Reuters, that China was considering obliging Putin’s requests, “It’s real, it’s consequential, and it’s really alarming.”
Both the Chinese and the Russians are denying any of it.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan was about to meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi Rome, just as the leak happened.
A statement from the White House, said after the meeting that Sullivan raised a “range of issues in U.S.-China relations, with substantial discussion of Russia’s war against Ukraine.”
A senior administration official told reporters, “We have deep concerns about China’s alignment with Russia at this time, and the national security adviser was direct about those concerns and the potential implications and consequences of certain actions.”
The official added that Sullivan described to Yang “the unity of the United States and its allies and partners…in bringing costs on Russia for its actions.”
Beijing was warned against helping Russia by the State Department.
State Department Press Secretary Ned Price said Monday, “We are watching very closely to the extent to which the [People’s Republic of China] or any country in the world provides support, material, economic, financial, rhetorical or otherwise, to this war of choice that President Putin is waging. We have been very clear, both privately with Beijing, publicly with Beijing, that there would be consequences for any such support.”
The U.S has sought help from China previously regarding Russia and over a period of three months, there were several urgent meetings between Chinese officials and Biden officials. Biden officials begged the Chinese to convince Russia not invade Ukraine.
Of course, the Chinese officials went straight to Moscow to share this information with them, and according to the New York Times, China told the Russians that the United States were attempting to upset their mutual peace, but that China would not interfere in any way.
Former Trump administration National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, told reporters on Capitol Hill that:
“There’s nothing wrong with talking to our adversaries, but I think it’s a little naive to think that somehow we’re going to convince the Chinese to go to their allies — the Russians — and say, ‘The Americans know where your troops are, so you shouldn’t invade,’”
“I think it maybe was a little naive to expect that we were going to get aid from the Chinese on this issue. I mean — especially when China, at the same time that this is happening, China’s sending fighter jets into the air defense identification zone of Taiwan,” he added. “So, it was a little surprising.”
O’Brien said that there’s no way Putin would have made his move without support from China.
“They — he and Xi — got together at the Olympics. There’s no doubt they talked about this. China is building pipelines and buying oil from Russia. And they’re basically telling the Russians, ‘If you’re cut off from the West, don’t worry, you got access to the Chinese market.’”
“So they’re certainly supporting Russia. And they’d also like to see the precedent of Russia taking Ukraine to give them a precedent for taking Taiwan. So we’ve gotta be very tough on China,” he said.
It is always GREED of power and money that fuels wars. We can see Russia to take Europe, China to take Asia and Iran to take the Middle East, so we have three hungry and evil leaders who will take us to the end of this world. Then judgement day will come for them to spend eternity in HELL. To this we pray, Amen.
Thanks to lightweight Joe & the goofy dems who put us in this position.
The Biden regime doesn’t have enough nerve or willpower to go against Russia, not to mention Russia AND China, which begs the question: how far is this going to go before Biden and our NATO allies stop Putin and actually give China something to be concerned about? I spent my time serving my Country, and know we have the abilities to deal with one or both, especially with all of NATO behind us! So please, will someone please explain why Biden is making us look like a nation of idiots and wimps? We need an entire administration change before Russia and/or China is on our land telling us what to do!! Dear Lord, please help us, because this administration is going to get everyone killed, occupied by foreigners or both! We need a leader, not a school boy who keeps getting his lunch money taken by bullies! We have middle defense systems set up in all NATO allies borders that are quite capable of negating what ever is thrown our way. Man up Biden or step aside!!
Given the leadership (Or, more accurately, the lack of it.), I’m not surprised China is growing bolder. It would have been a greater surprise if they hadn’t. I fully expect China to try taking Taiwan by force soon, taking advantage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The question is: How soon?
LoL thanks to the present Administration, and the one who was in another this Puppet as VP, the push for the destruction of the US has never been clearer. The Globalist Consortium wants America gone so its plan of a one world Government can begin. This plan was originated in the Hitler Youth camps and is funded by George Soros ( a NAZI Collaborator in WWll,) along with other Globalist who want one person and one Government running everything. The Rich everything while everyone else works for what the Government is willing to give. Thanks Democrats and FJB, FBO, FGS and the rest
This goes as far back as pre WWII when the Democrat FDR, who was always soft on communism, enacted an oil embargo on Japan in order to help what was on the way to being red China. It’s always a lousy DemoRAT who helps the commies.
Biden sounds weak when he speaks, and looks so weak. If we can see it, think of how we are looked upon by other leaders. Putin and Zelensky look strong! Speak strong! We need a leader that can think and make decisions. He will be out soon enough, and his backup is even scarier. She cant and wont fix our problem at the southern border. I have never been more worried about our country! God Bless America!
We’re full of it as usual. Russia just surrounded Kyiv and surrounding territories harboring neo Nazis with an armor column that was 60km long on approach. They have less need of Chinese assistance to take out these people as the US 3rd Infantry needed to take out Iraq’s defenses. The State Dept. is so piss poor at self awareness that they don’t even seem to realize that shoving weapons into the area does not put them in any position to tell China they are doing nothing to work towards peace. China sure is. They are staying out of Ukraine like we should have done in 2014.
That’s what the ilegitiment clownshow Joe Biden wants us to believe but in reality he has been in bed with China for decades and would not do anything to disrupt the Biden gravy train that China supplies to him and Hunter . In reality we can’t trust Joe or China .