After the US, the European Union has also warned China against arms deliveries to Russia. “A red line” would be crossed, EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell said today on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels. He also made this clear to senior Chinese foreign politician Wang Yi. He assured him that China “had no intention of doing this”.
Sweden, which holds the presidency of the EU Council of Ministers for this six-month period, has threatened China with “consequences” if it supplies Russia with arms. Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said in Brussels that his message to Beijing was clear: “No weapons for Russia, under any circumstances and from any country!” The EU is on the side of the US.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had warned the day before that China was considering “deadly support” for Russia in the Ukraine war. That includes “everything from ammunition to the weapons themselves,” Blinken told CBS. Blinken had already met Wang at the Munich Security Conference.
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