Kremlin: Russia and China tolerate Western pressure

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “Novosti” news agency, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced last night that any contact between the leaders of Russia and the People’s Republic of China will attract the attention of the whole world due to their importance, although the views on the development of relations between Moscow and Beijing differ.

Pskov emphasized: “Russia and China are independent countries that value their sovereignty and decide on their own about the country’s development process, and there is a lot of pressure in this regard.” from the West, but they resist these pressures with enough self-confidence.” The press secretary of the Russian President pointed out that Moscow and Beijing The upcoming negotiations will emphasize on strengthening multilateral and bilateral cooperation, he added: the officials of the two countries should discuss many issues of mutual interest. In this regard, Peskov announced that the preparations for Vladimir Putin’s visit to China are in their final stages. According to him, after the agreement with the Chinese partners, the time of this trip will be announced jointly. approved himself to travel to China in May.

Blinken’s criticism of sending technical equipment from China to Russia and threatening new sanctions

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken admitted in an interview with NPR radio during his visit to Beijing and after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. China does not supply weapons and military equipment to Russia, but the goods supplied from China to Russia are used in the production of various weapons for the military conflict in Ukraine.

He said: China is currently not giving weapons to Russia for use in Ukraine, like North Korea and Iran. Of course, Beijing is Russia’s number one supplier in the field of the most important parts and equipment needed to rebuild the military industry base – machine tools, microelectronics, optics and other things.

Blinken in this interview. He threatened: If Beijing does not stop its support for the Russian military industrial complex, the United States is ready to increase pressure on China, especially by imposing new sanctions. He once again accused China of supplying Russia with double-valued goods (used for industrial purposes).

In his opinion, supporting Russia, “The biggest threat to Europe’s security since the end of the Cold War” and the Chinese side cannot demand to expand its relations with Europe and help Russia at the same time. Blinken added: “As I made clear today in talks with Chinese officials, ensuring transatlantic security is one of the key interests of the United States, and if Beijing doesn’t solve this problem, we will.”

The US Secretary of State emphasized that the US has sanctioned more than 100 Chinese companies due to their business relations with Russia, and reminded that there are other measures that Washington may resort to. .

Anthony Blinken had talked with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi for about five hours before meeting the Chinese president.

According to a CNN report, China’s foreign minister made it clear that acute tensions still exist between the two powers and also accused the United States of “endless measures to suppress the economy, trade , China’s science and technology does”.

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