Blinken says China helping fuel Russian threat to Ukraine

Blinken says China helping fuel Russian threat to Ukraine
Antony BlinkenBBC/Wang Xiqing

If China does n’t stop providing Russia with goods used in its assault on Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned Washington will take action.

The US’s best minister told the BBC in Beijing that he had made it clear to his peers that they were “helping energy the biggest danger” to Western security since the Cold War.

He did not specify what steps the US was prepared to take.

However, Mr. Blinken was even eager to point out that some improvements had been made.

He praised Beijing for making efforts to stop fentanyl’s supply reaching the US.

The US continues to have the primary cause of fentanyl in China, which the White House claims is causing a national health issue.

Mr. Blinken added that he thought Beijing could play a” creative” role in the Middle East, pointing out that China could use its relationship with Iran to “inspire” Israel against a further increase in its conflict with Israel.

The visit by Mr. Blinken, who made the second one in ten months, is a major improvement in politics and speech between these two rival countries as they try to keep things on a level playing field after a year of intense unrest.

China’s promises to Taiwan and the South China Sea and US export restrictions on superior technology have strained bilateral relations between Washington and Beijing. A column over a detective bubble in February caused them additional damage.

A recent US law was passed that, according to Mr. Blinken, had never discussed this during his meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping, would require the highly-anticipated video app to be sold or been banned in America.

Mr Xi- who met Mr Blinken on Friday evening in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People- agreed the two edges had “made some good development” since he met his US rival, Joe Biden, in November.

He added the countries may “be lovers, not adversaries”, saying that if the US took” a good perspective of China’s development”, relationships was” really stabilise, getting better and move forward”.