It is not known whether Beijing responded to the call for help from Moscow. China’s embassy in the US capital Washington, DC, has remained silent, as has the White House.
The US government has previously warned China and Chinese companies not to help Russia circumvent sanctions. Then Chinese companies could also become the target of US punitive measures, it said.
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“We will make sure that neither China nor anyone else can compensate Russia for these losses,” Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, 45, told NBC television on Sunday. On Monday he wants to meet with the top Chinese foreign politician Yang Jiechi (71) in Rome. It should also go to the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. Diplomat Jiechi was the Chinese ambassador to the United States for a number of years.
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