{"id":251060,"date":"2022-03-18T08:11:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T08:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251060"},"modified":"2022-03-19T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T08:24:23","slug":"ukraine-war-joe-biden-to-warn-xi-jinping-china-will-face-costs-if-it-helps-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251060","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war: Joe Biden to warn Xi Jinping China will face \u2018costs\u2019 if it helps Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Boffey, Dan Sabbagh \u2013 The Guardian March 18, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The US president, Joe Biden<\/a>, will warn his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, that he will face \u201ccosts\u201d if Beijing rescues fellow authoritarian ally Russia from intense western sanctions aimed at punishing Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The two leaders\u2019 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<\/a>, placing China in a geopolitical bind.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s \u201can opportunity for President Biden to assess where President Xi stands,\u201d the White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.<\/p>\n

Early on Friday, air raid sirens sounded in the western Ukraine<\/a> city of Lviv, followed by the sound of explosions and a column of smoke, a few miles from the city centre.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The British foreign secretary, Liz Truss, said there was \u201cvery, very strong evidence\u201d of war crimes<\/a> being committed by Russian forces as the war enters its fourth week.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cslowly weaken Russian conventional strength\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia likely will increasingly rely on its nuclear deterrent to signal the west and project strength to its internal and external audiences,\u201d said Lieut General Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, in a 67-page summary<\/a> of global threats, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

Psaki said that in Biden\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s Biden-Xi call follows a meeting between a Chinese foreign ministry official and Russia\u2019s ambassador to China<\/a> to exchange views on bilateral counter-terrorism and security cooperation, according to the Chinese foreign ministry.<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even before the Ukraine crisis China and Russia knew they faced a common threat. Beijing knows that if it doesn\u2019t back Russia it will be next in line, probably over Taiwan <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":250299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,58,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251063,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251060\/revisions\/251063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/250299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}