China is considering supplying arms to Russia, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Sunday after a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.
Will Beijing deliver arms to Vladimir Putin’s soldiers? US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned of possible military aid from China to Moscow.
The US representative was speaking from Berlin, where the Munich Security Conference is currently being held, the day after a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, organized on Saturday. “We talked about the war being waged by Russia and the concerns we have that China is planning to provide lethal support to Russia,” he said on CBS.
The head of the American diplomacy specified that this aid meant “mainly weapons” and did not fail to warn China against the “implications and the consequences” that such aid would generate, announced the spokesman from the State Department, Ned Price, in reporting on the “frank and direct” interview.
Antony Blinken accuses Moscow of crimes against humanity
As part of this interview with CBS, Antony Blinken also returned to the accusations of crimes against humanity directed against Russia, which he had already announced in an official statement published this Saturday, February 18, like the Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris.
According to the US Secretary of State, several Russian officials have committed “torture of civilians in detention, beatings and electrocutions”.
“We have always been attentive to the atrocities committed in Ukraine and we continue to watch what is happening and to enforce the law,” said Antony Blinken on Sunday.