CHINA
SEND TECH HARDWARE TO HELP PUTIN BY CHIARA ALBANESE
EUROPEAN UNION OFFICIALS SUSPECT THAT CHINA MAY BE READY TO SUPPLY SEMICONDUCTORS AND OTHER TECH HARDWARE TO RUSSIA AS PART OF AN EFFORT TO SOFTEN THE IMPACT OF SANCTIONS IMPOSED OVER THE INVASION OF UKRAINE. he EU is concerned
U.S. officials have also warned
One of the EU officials said
Jinping in a video conference
that China is ready
that Beijing may provide help
that the bloc so far has no
last week that China would be
to help President
to Putin, and China’s potential
hard evidence to back up its
risking its plans for economic
influence on the situation in
concerns. A spokesman for the
growth through international
Ukraine was a central issue in
EU Commission declined to
trade if it provided the Kremlin
discussions Thursday between
comment.
with aid.
President Joe Biden and his
Biden said the leaders
“He’d be putting himself in
allies from NATO, the Group of
had discussed creating
significant jeopardy in those
Seven industrialized nations
an organization to watch
aims if in fact he moved
and the EU in Brussels.
components, according to two
for violations of sanctions
forward” with assistance for
At the NATO summit there was
people with knowledge of the
a broad consensus that the
imposed by the U.S., EU and
Russia, Biden said in Brussels.
bloc’s internal assessments.
allies should prevent China
other partners against Russia,
The NATO leaders also
after noting that he’d made
appealed to Beijing in their
clear China would suffer
summit communique.
consequences if it aids the
“We call on all states, including
Kremlin’s war against Ukraine.
the People’s Republic of
NATO and G-7 leaders dis-
China (PRC), to uphold the
cussed establishing “an organ-
international order including
ization looking at who has vio-
the principles of sovereignty
lated any of the sanctions and
and territorial integrity, as
where and when and how they
enshrined in the UN Charter,
violated them,” Biden said at a
to abstain from supporting
news conference in Brussels.
Russia’s war effort in any way,
“And that’s something we’re
and to refrain from any action
going to put in train.”
that helps Russia circumvent
Biden said he had “made it
sanctions,” the statement
clear” to Chinese President Xi
said.
T
Vladimir Putin’s government weather the economic penalties it has put in place along with the U.S., the U.K. and Japan with particular focus on the availability of high-tech
from getting too close to Russia, but there was no agreement on how they should achieve that, another diplomat said. Beijing and Moscow have denied any requests for aid were made or accepted. Joe Biden at European Union leaders summit to discuss support for Ukraine
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