Blinken says China's talk of Ukraine peace 'doesn't add up' – DW – 09/28/2024
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China is working to gather support from developing countries behind a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine. But, the United State has concerns about China's support for Russia's defense industrial base.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday expressed strong concerns about China’s support for Russia’s defense industry and questioned Beijing’s sincerity in seeking peace in Ukraine.

He met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday.

“When Beijing says that, on the one hand, that it wants peace, it wants to see an end to the conflict, but on the other hand is allowing its companies to take actions that are actually helping Putin continue the aggression, that doesn’t add up,” Blinken said at a media briefing.

Beijing said it has not supplied Russia with weapons for use in Ukraine.

Blinken, however, said China has provided about 70% of machine tools and 90% of microelectronics that Moscow needs for military production, including rockets and armored vehicles.

  • brvslvrnst@lemmy.mlEnglish
    68·
    2 months ago

    This is the same Blinken that actively ignored investigations into Israel blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza and said everything was above board?

    Yes, I know it’s a separate conflict. But his actions there kinda make it hard to take much from him. These are probably valid accusations, but also: the US is providing weapons for use in Gaza.

    rabblerabble

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        2 months ago

        Because people refuse to acknowledge that the US government is assisting a genocide. I believe that Blinken only knows China is full of shit because it’s literally what the US is doing with the genocide.

      • Doorbook@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        2 months ago

        You have a few user types:

        • if you say Israel is committing genocide you will get downvoted by mostly Zaionist. There are few here compare to reddit but still exist.
        • if you say US government is part of the genocide, you will get downvoted by mostly Zionist.
        • if you said Genocide Joe, or blamed the democrats for what is happening, you will get downvoted by democrats who will accuse you of being a russian shell because you want trump to win.
        • if you mention the hypocrisy of the statement made to support Ukraine and how they treat Palestinian you will get downvoted by European and being accuse of being a russian shell.
        • if you comment about history and how the US and Nato happy to prolong the war in Ukraine and how Nazis still exist or anything allude to how the US and its allies might be lying about Russia the same way the lied about all their enemies through out their history, you will get downvoted and label a tanki.
      • brvslvrnst@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        My initial take was that first sentence lol then realized that context should be added. Its a complex issue that’s hard to really put to a single comment.

    • jaxxed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      This is an example of why erosion of public confidence in democratic institutions is a critical problem. We want to be able to follow an institutional opinion on this topic, but our trust has been eroded by another topic, which makes it less trustworthy.