China on Monday rejected a claim from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Beijing was considering providing Russia with weapons to use in its war in Ukraine.
“It is the US, not China, that has been pouring weapons into the battlefield. The US is in no position to tell China what to do. We would never stand for finger-pointing, or even coercion and pressurizing from the US on our relations with Russia,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters.
Blinken claimed the US had information that China was “considering providing lethal support” to Russia but offered no evidence to back up the assertion. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN, said Sunday that if China provides Russia with weapons, it will cross a “red line.”
China has been increasing economic and military ties with Russia but so far has shown no interest in providing weapons to aid in Moscow’s war, and Chinese officials have repeatedly called for peace talks. “China will continue to stay firm on the side of peace and dialogue and play a constructive part in easing the situation,” Wang said.
The US has been making claims about China and Russia’s relationship throughout the current conflict in Ukraine. In the early days of the war, US officials claimed that Russia asked China to provide military assistance. But NBC News reported in April 2022 that the claim lacked “hard evidence” and was part of an information war against Russia.
The NBC report said that other unsubstantiated claims made about Russia at the time were part of a US information war against Russia. Washington was making information public even when they didn’t have evidence to back up the claims, including allegations that Russia was planning to use chemical weapons.
“It is the US, not China, that has been pouring weapons into the battlefield.”
Can’t argue with him there can we? Blinken should change his title into a spokesperson of the arms industry instead of a diplomat…
He should be presented with a jacket covered with decals of the names of the organizations making up the MIC, their sponsors. like NASCAR drivers.
An old idea but a very good one! Thanks for reminding us.
It cuts into american profits doncha know?
If China wants to supply Russia with weapons it is F all to do with the Yanks , they know if China did supply Russia with Weapons it would be game over for their plans for Ukraine .
The US acts desperate to believe its own propaganda — that Russia has suffered massive losses, and is running out of ammo. It has not.
The truth is that Ukraine has suffered massive losses and is running out of ammo, which the US can no longer replace.
Russia does not need Chinese weapons or ammo. Russia’s very different factory system has kept the facilities needed, as it always did. State factories, kept as defense assets.
Furthermore, it also kept much larger ammo stocks than did the US. It always has, and that never changed. It has ammo in stock it made for the Cold War, some of it early on. Russian ammo is “dirty” powder, but it lasts forever in storage.
Chinese might supply Russia, if asked. Why not? The US is doing the same. But Russia has not asked, and will not need it. Different system. It is not profit based for quarterly returns on investment of privately owned manufacture. In many other contexts, we make a big deal out of those differences, but we ignore them when they begin to serve the intended purpose of them.
Exactly. The US is acting like a petty, jealous divorcee. They don’t want an intimate relationship with you, but also don’t want you to have one with someone else. It’s a recipe for disaster and good business for a hitman. (Sarcasm alert)
Victory has many fathers. Defeat is an orphan.
The flood of lies will be exposed by reality, as Ukraine collapses. The political establishment will turn then.
The liars see this coming. Their current plan is to turn on China, replace the failing lies with new lies. The failure is to be China’s fault.
That would be convenient for the next target they intended anyway.
It was Iran before…! Now it’s China…! Tomorrow it would be North Korea arming Russia…! The Lie Factory is non-stop…!
Iran will always be the eternal bad-guy
Some call it an information war. I call it simply, lying.
When Russia over runs eastern Ukraine, US has an excuse to start a war between China and Taiwan.
For the kind of low level artillery warfare Russia needs no help, It has still stockpiles of ammunition since Soviet days, and the period of trusting West was of short duration. Much too short to relax. Theefore, factories producing ammunitiin never really shuttered down. Just changed for newer product demands.
But where US is not wrong, Chuna and Russia ever since 2000 and founding of SCO develooed scientific cooperation, both in Russia and China. And that led to arms coproduction. It was first based on an established model Soviet Union had with India. But soon evolved into sharing of factory floors, container shipping of parts for assembly elsewhere. Russia kickstarted Chinese aircraft carrier era, by selling to China its aircraft carrier. Since China developed their own line.
The real question is — are the new weapons line announced by Russia in 2018 coproduced, and usingvwhat model.
Based on what we see in Russia’s dealungs with Turkey, Iran and Egypt — to name a few — it allears that Russia provides a specific model iof a weapin, in the basis of which others can innovate and brand them as indigenously produced. I think Russia has rights to purchase them. This can be seen in the evolution of old Russan Geran class drines. Fabled Turkish Barjaktar is an advanced drine that started crom Geran, so is the Iranian drone. The silence over such practice has been deafening, Especially with China. Many if Chinese fourt and fifth gen warplanes are adaptations and evolution of Russian versions.
But I am pretty sure that hypersonic technology such as Russian Kinzhal, Avangard, Zircon -/ have their Chinese equivalents, And an utter silence is surrounding Poseidon, Russian nuclear powered drone/probe subs, There is no question that this is a weapon system that has no vulnerabilities, and has the virually endless range of operation as well as time underwater. It can go to depths submarines cannot. And they can menace coastal areas with the missile power they carry. Faster than torpedoes, they can outmaneuver any dangers, Why such silence? It is known that they are in production.
Lately, I have noticed an increased attention to Chinese armamnents. But you can hardly find much in their Russian predecessors or equivalents. It feels eerie,
Almost as if it is important for propaganda ourposes to diminish the apoearance of Russia’s strength, and hype Chinese advances in weaponry. And now, in line with this public perception management — US is rraisung the issue of China providing lethal aid to Russia.
This is well planned. It is essential for the Western lublic to think thst Russian technoligy is nit advanced, to think that its military is a fumbling, dum and sluggiish show. That its soldiers are conscripts, its commanders vying for limelight, Rusdian publuc unhappy, sanctions “about” to bite, etc. etc. All this means that NATO is aiming at damaging Russia, insuring at least a perception of defeat, and continuing with pressure on Russia for decades to come until physically defeated.
In that endeavoor US has plenty of potential recruits. Poland, Germany, new NATO recruits.
What China has accomplished by firing back is the following. Russia needs no help from us, but do not meddle in our rekationshipp with Russia. Translated, diwn the road as you proceede with designs in Russia and indirectly China — things can change.
China may be a wife beater, but they know a rapist when the see one.