The United States National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, will meet, Monday, March 14, in Rome, the director of the China Foreign Affairs Committee, Diplomat Yang Jiechi. A meeting considered crucial while Moscow has just asked Beijing military aid.
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Is ambiguity tenured? China is at the time of a strategic choice that could determine its place in the world and its own internal balances. This is in any case what the Biden administration, which believes more than ever to confront the models, democratic and autocratic. Relying on the strength and responsiveness of Western camp, Washington wants to convince Beijing not to engage in support open to the Kremlin, whose price would be high, particularly in terms of indirect economic sanctions. Monday, March 14, the National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, must meet in Rome Yang Jiechi, a member of the Chinese Communist Party and Director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission.
This interview was preceded by a series of positions in Washington, designed to place China in front of its responsibilities. More than 13% of the Currency Reserves of the Russian Central Bank – about $ 77 billion (70.3 billion euros) – are held in Yuan. But beyond that, the stake is that of economic remediation. The temptation to impose in Russia with an unprecedented financial, commercial and technological dependence on China is strong, but the risks and costs seem considerable.
Difficult equilibrium position to Keep
While the Russian army continues his devastating offensive in Ukraine, the eyes are turning to Beijing. On the economic and financial level, China is indeed the only possible rescue buoy for Russia, facing massive Western penalties that place it at the edge of the default. At the diplomatic level, Beijing tries to preserve a balance between its hostility in the United States and its reservations about the war conducted in Ukraine.
Interview Sunday on the NBC channel, Jake Sullivan warned China against any Kremlin rescue project, to overcome the unprecedented wave of Western sanctions that strikes the country. “We will make sure that neither China nor anyone else, does not compensate for Russia for its losses. I will not expose in public the different ways of doing this, but we will communicate them privately to China, like we have already done and will continue to do so. “Also speaking on the CNN chain, the National Security Advisor returned to the degree of information that Beijing would have arranged, at the end of the Putin / XI meeting on February 4th. , on the sidelines of the Olympic Winter Games. If the United States believes that China “was informed before the invasion that Vladimir Putin planned something, she may not have seized her wingspan,” said Jake Sullivan. According to him, “It is very possible that Putin lied them, in the same way he lied to Europeans and others”.
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