Daniel Boffey, Dan Sabbagh – The Guardian March 18, 2022
The US president, Joe Biden, will warn his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, that he will face “costs” if Beijing rescues fellow authoritarian ally Russia from intense western sanctions aimed at punishing Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
The two leaders’ first phone call since a video summit in November will be a chance to air differences as the US spearheads an unprecedented pressure campaign on Russia, placing China in a geopolitical bind.
It’s “an opportunity for President Biden to assess where President Xi stands,” the White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
Early on Friday, air raid sirens sounded in the western Ukraine city of Lviv, followed by the sound of explosions and a column of smoke, a few miles from the city centre.
The Biden-Xi call, at 1pm GMT on Friday, comes after Russia was accused by the UK, the US, France, Albania, Ireland and Norway of war crimes, and Paris claimed Vladimir Putin was only pretending to be interested in negotiating a peace deal.
The British foreign secretary, Liz Truss, said there was “very, very strong evidence” of war crimes being committed by Russian forces as the war enters its fourth week.
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, who has warned repeatedly that Putin will turn to the use of chemical weapons, said the US administration was gathering evidence of war crimes and appeared to dismiss hopes of a resolution through diplomacy.
Amid signs of a faltering Russian invasion, the Pentagon reportedly assessed that Putin may resort to threats to use nuclear weapons as sanctions and setbacks on the ground “slowly weaken Russian conventional strength”.
“Russia likely will increasingly rely on its nuclear deterrent to signal the west and project strength to its internal and external audiences,” said Lieut General Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, in a 67-page summary of global threats, according to Bloomberg.
Psaki said that in Biden’s meeting with Xi, trade rows and snarled international supply chains would be discussed, but a big focus is expected to be the western bid to force Russia from Ukraine.
Friday’s Biden-Xi call follows a meeting between a Chinese foreign ministry official and Russia’s ambassador to China to exchange views on bilateral counter-terrorism and security cooperation, according to the Chinese foreign ministry.
The “guardian” at its “finest”…
Joe Bidense (he’s twice as thick as your average Joe) might send a warning to Xi Jinping … if Xi answers his call. A lot of leaders have been snubbing him lately, so it depends if Xi feels a bit sorry for him.
Xi Jinping dies of laughter?
What he can say is, Joe, maybe my country stop making stuff for big western corporations that can’t or won’t pay a living wage to their own people.
He could and what would moron Joe do? Nothing.
Bigger “costs” the other way. Not very good at diplomacy, the Americants, are they?
@Mad Mc. LOL. I can imagine that call.
‘Mr Xi, Mr Biden on the ‘phone’.
‘Tell him I’ve gone out’.
“President” Biden will access nothing because he is a decomposing vegetable. His handlers will make the decisions. Everything told to the public is a fraud and a lie. Politicians and media are liars.
Simple remedy. . . if all the politicians, intelligence agencies and talking heads disappeared the world would be a safer and happier place.
China should stick with Russia since they have the energy and can supply it over land. Also, Russia has been a good ally and has not tried to back track on any deals they’ve signed.
And what can America supply to China other than consumers with money that is being diluted into nothing? If China needs consumers, I suggest the Chinese work on elevating more of their poor into the middle class, and before they know it, they have another 1/2 billion consumers.
Is there really any point in relaying the irrelevant crap “The Guardian of the JEWISH SATANIC EMPIRE” serves the stupid enough GOYIM, who care wasting their time read this piece of excrements?
This threatening behaviour by the US underlines their schoolboy diplomatic acumen. The Chinese will not take this kind of pressure, & in fact, its going to make them more determined to stand upto the US.
By viewing Vlad next to Xi you can detect the Asiatic blood in him..they have similar physiognomies except for the dark hair…Jews are an odd racial mishmash of Caucasoid-Negroid-Mongoloid dna..
I just read some news story where Putin gave some speech at a soccer stadium & the stage had various slogans on it..one was “For a world without Nazism”…so its true, this was a factor in the ‘invasion’ (kill off pro-white Ukrainians/Nazis) yet many white wing morons are supporting this anti-Nazi Communist..
The Chinese know perfectly well that America hates them and will do anything to destroy them. That’s why they threw so much effort into their nuclear weapons program.
US biowarfare labs in Ukraine weren’t just aimed at the Russians. China cannot be defeated by conventional or nuclear means. This is why China has suffered a variety if strange plagues over the last 10 years.
Ukraine is rushing to launch an app which encompasses all government branches and all access to all its citizens’ details. Maybe Ukraine really is the last redoubt of the NWO and they’re about to lose it?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/in-the-future-governments-will-resemble-tech-companies-ukraine-launches-all-encompassing-govt-app/
@ lisa
but the deep staters +militaries
would say nothing to the public+
you would never know what comes
next .
at least we now know nukes
are next and this is already
comforting to know. no kidding !
@Nico X: Sometimes you offer valid point and very good comment but this time you must be trolling or your mind is totally confused…Even if your beloved ukrainian warriors were 101% aryan race with dolichocephalic skulls and suebian knots, this is not about nazism VS communism at all…How could they fight for any white agenda or against communism/globalism when actually lot of them and almost all their higher ranks, commanders and military/political leaders are either jews or crooks trained, armed and funded directly by mossad/mi6/cia ???
Just reading the name ‘Jen Psaki’ can induce dry heaves.
@Nuke …I’m just repeating what the govt/media of Communist Russia stated was the reason for the war: to kill Nazis & stop ‘genocide’–so according to Russia it is a war of Nazism vs. Communism.
Yes, I’m well aware that the Ukraine is governed by the Zionist Oligarchs just like Russia is…what you’re not grasping is that they both (via their two yarmulke/Chabad agents: Putin/Zelensky) set it up to slaughter myriads of pro-white Ukrainian ‘nationalists’..
@Nico X: — That phrase “fighting nazism” the Russians are not so accurately using is not any fight against some kind of national socialist utopia of ethnic white Ukrainians as you and many naive and confused right-wingers believe, but it is actually rightful and justified killing of mossad/cia/mi6 mercenaries who are murdering ethnic Russian civilians and even ethnic Ukrainians which want to avoid the warfare, helping their zionist overlords from USA/Israel running their bio-labs and wish to bring nuclear weapons right to the borderline with Russia
Actually its your beloved “nazi” ukrainian troops who are using human shields and civilian hostages and sabotaging the ceasefires on humanitarian corridors, forcing every white male, 15-60 of age to become cannon foder, while allowing all jewish males to flee the country at the same time …You are using this false “nazism VS. communism” dichtonomy yet you shill for obvious judenpresse, msm nonsenses about “Russians killing Ukrainian civilians”
sure Nuke..and all these millions of white Ukrainian women/children are escaping their towns/cities because the Soviet Russians aren’t reducing them to rubble (irony)….lol
If you want to believe the Communist propaganda that’s your business..both ‘sides’ are disseminating disinfo in their Jewish managed mass media networks.. But one thing is certain..Its a War against Whites set up by the two yarmulke Chadad boys (Putin/Zelensky)..You’re still not comprehending the mechanics of the Marxist dialectic…
@Nico X:
So according to your logic, both parts (USA and Russia) are actually playing some ordo ab chao mystery game, spending billions, just because their final goal is to annihilate as many white Ukrainians as possible…LOL
Frankly, i think you are just overthinking, applying weird masonic principles as some kind of univeral laws and thus missing a point, you are using your typical “yarmulke-wearing communists killing innocent white nazis” pattern every single time in every possible context, but this time i can tell you that is not the case at all. This current global conflict of zionist/jew infested USA (via their ukrainian proxy) VS. Russia, which also has its own powerful jewish clique, without any doubt (but seriously though, what country doesnt have its jewish clique?) is about the incompetent USA wishing to incite another world war in Europe because that is all they need right now in the time of their collapsing economy and society and hyperinflation. They can see that the world could fully function without them (Multipolarism) and they try to do anything to avoid that make it happen. You can see how Biden is begging for oil from Saudis, Gulf states and even Iran and they all smartly reject him. You can see how jew Blinken tries to bully China, India and other superpowers for not quitting their trade with Russia but they can openly tell him to fuck off. USA – empire of evil and lies is loosing, that is why they are so desperate and bloodthirsty for new war on European soil and their proxy (Ukraine) and their client states (basically whole jew infested EU+UK plus NATO members) are even more stupid than average american neocon pederast for supporting this insanity. It’s NATO using your white Ukrainian troops as cannon fodders and civilians as sacrifice, not “communist” Russia as you claim. It’s actually Russian troops helping poor Ukrainian civilians and try their best not to harm them, but unfortunately that is not always possible because your white Ukrainian troops are cowardly hiding behind civilians using them as human shields and purposely killing them as they try to flee from conflict zones and then blaming Russians. There are tons of evidence, hundreds such examples just here on TTS links, news and reports, but you obviously prefer juden presse and western msm propaganda as the source of your info. Good luck then.