Anger over Friday’s imposition of US sanctions on a China military agency for buying Russian arms continues to grow, with China’s Defense Ministry announcing that they have recalled Navy Chief Shen Jinlong from the US, and indefinitely postponed planned talks that were supposed to happen next week.
The Defense Ministry added further countermeasures could be taken in the future, while Foreign Ministry officials say they’ve summoned the US Ambassador terry Branstad to complain about the sanctions.
The US imposed sanctions to protest China buying air defense systems from Russia. The US has threatened such measures repeatedly, but has rarely enforced sanctions against other customers of Russia.
The State Department has defended the move, saying China is the only country to take delivery of S-400 missiles yet. They insist the sanctions are meant to punish Russia, not China.
Yeah. China should by the US air defense at 5X the price. The one that the the US knows how to spoof.
Don’t want those doggone Russians challenging our arms sales monopoly. That’s what keeps the Military Industrial Complex humming.
These sanctions are nonsensical on so many levels… It’s almost as if Trump and his bankster buddies are deliberately trying to kill the US dollar in favor of the Chinese petro-yuan to drive the USA right over the financial cliff.
China is the world’s largest importer of oil. If they start buying Russian and Iranian oil with their currency instead of dollars, it will be galloping inflation for US consumers, financial chaos, and our frantic citizenry calling for martial law and more authoritarian governance just like Germany in the 1930s. It will turn out to be the new financial 9/11 that will ultimately lead to WWIII, which is what the banksters and the Zionists have wanted all along.
Since Russia’s defense systems are know to be effective, many nations wish to buy them. The way the USA behaves, we all need defense from such a bully. Buying US “defense” would be useless, since the “interoperability” would be used to ensure they were not defended at all!!!!
The US is trying to extend its mandatory Buy American Arms (and not Russian) policy from occupied Europe, the Commonwealth and Japan to independent (non-occupied) countries and it’s not working. Even in Turkey, which IS occupied! India is also key — the US just sent Mattis and Pompeo there to get them in line.
They insist the sanctions are meant to punish Russia, not China.
The US being able to conduct a successful air attack on China would punish Russia? You believe that, I’ve got this bridge. . .