GEOPOLITICS: Biden says he warned Xi of investment chill if China backs Putin

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President Joe Biden said he warned Chinese President Xi Jinping it would be a “gigantic mistake” to violate sanctions imposed on Russia, but that there’s been no indication that Beijing has provided weapons to Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.

Biden, according to excerpts from an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” airing Sunday, said he spoke with Xi shortly after the Chinese president met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin during the Olympics in February. Russia invaded days after the games’ closing ceremony.

He didn’t specify when the call took place, but the statement echoes a US readout of a call between the two leaders in March, after which the USBiden “described the implications and consequences if China provides material support to Russia as it conducts brutal attacks against Ukrainian cities and civilians”.

Even without any signs of China violating sanctions, economic ties between the two countries are already strained. The White House has taken steps to secure domestic supply chains, including in semiconductors, to cut its reliance on the Asian nation and has

 

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While he's providing weapons to Ukraine to kill people of Donbass.

His threats has become empty rhetoric from aging and frail man who often sees ghosts.

Ooh this is dangerous rhetoric, when one power bloc leader “warns” another power bloc leader. Sometimes, often, in worldly matters, I wish women ran the world, they’d make better teachers and leaders than…. 😇

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