It's to be expected that both China and Russia would deny Russia asked China for weapons to support its criminal invasion of Ukraine. Both have a deep vested interest in such denials, as such actions would make Putin look weak and Xi look complicit.
What can't be denied however, is that Putin has made numerous threats about the use of nuclear weapons, while at the same time weaponizing the nuclear power stations in Ukraine, including Chernobyl.
These threats, lessen the West's ability to end the war and the needless human suffering.
China needs to be put on formal notice by the West that China will own the outcome of any use of nuclear weapons by Russia., conventional or otherwise. China can't idly stand by thinking it will be an innocent bystander in such a global catastrophe.
The sooner that NATO, Joe Biden and every leader in the West calls China out on this, the sooner this atrocity will end.
Then we can get back to the regular business of trying Putin for war crimes at the Hague. Something that is long overdue.
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From today's Globe and Mail:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-biden-will-warn-xi-in-video-call-about-chinas-alignment-with-russia/
Speaking this week, Alex Younger, the former head of the UK’s spy agency MI6, said China’s approach to Ukraine appeared motivated by a desire to cause problems for the West. He said Beijing was viewing the crisis through a prism of “what’s bad for America or bad for what we call the rules based international system is somehow good for China.”
“This mindset of a zero-sum game with the West is the dominant factor in Chinese decision making at the moment,” Mr. Younger told the BBC, adding the West should “send a really strong message” to Beijing in order to get Mr. Xi to act on Ukraine.
Mr. Xi may be alone among world leaders in having any influence over Mr. Putin, he said.
“Vladimir Putin needs Xi,” Mr. Younger said. “Of all the people in the world that can assert influence on Vladimir Putin, who is in his bunker and who is obsessed by achieving greatness through the restoration of the Russian Emperor, of all the people in the world who can talk sense to him, it’s Xi.”
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