http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/fyrth/202204/t20220406_10665019.htm
statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman today;
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Zhao Lijian: Since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine broke out, the US has been increasing unilateral sanctions on Russia and coercing other countries to take side. This report you mentioned points out that in the past eight years from 2014 till now, a group pf countries, led by the United States, imposed 8,068 sanctions on Russia, which overtakes Iran as the most sanctioned country in the world. Since February 22 this year, 5,314 new sanctions have been slapped on Russia.
I also noted that Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Mikhail Popov said, in a contrasting move to its pressuring of European countries to not buy Russian oil, the US increased crude oil supplies from Russia by 43 percent, or 100,000 barrels per day, over the past week and allowed its companies to import mineral fertilizers from Russia. The ongoing war and sanctions have incurred an influx of refugees, capital outflow and energy shortage in Europe, but enabled the US to have profited and made a fortune from that.
History and reality have made it clear that sanctions cannot guarantee peace and security, and will only lead to a lose-lose situation, further impacting the already languishing world economy and the existing global economic system. If the US is serious about easing the situation in Ukraine, it should stop adding fuel to the fire, stop imposing sanctions, stop coercive words and deeds and truly commit to promote peace talks.
China and Russia increasingly throwing in their lots together and strengthening ties against their common enemy, us. China's getting more vocal about opposing US sanctions
Meanwhile the US engaging in even more bellicose sanctions rhetoric;
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-says-china-could-face-sanctions-if-it-supports-russias-war-ukraine-2022-04-06/Quote
Sanctions imposed on Russia over its war in Ukraine should give China a "good understanding" of the consequences it could face if it provides material support to Moscow, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Wednesday.
Sherman said the "range of sanctions" and export controls coordinated among U.S. allies and partners against Russian President Vladimir Putin, the country's economy, and oligarchs, should serve as an example for China's leader Xi Jinping.
"It gives President Xi, I think, a pretty good understanding of what might come his way should he, in fact, support Putin in any material fashion," Sherman told a House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee hearing.
She said Beijing should "take away the right lessons" from the coordinated Western response over Ukraine that any moves by China to take the democratically governed island of Taiwan by force would not be acceptable.
Truly, we are back to the nadir of bull-in-china-shop geopolitics that puts the Bush era to shame. Zero self-interest from American diplomats, zero geopolitical strategy, uniting our enemies and dividing our allies.
How in the flying fuck does the current situation in Ukraine and economic sanctions serve our own interests, let alone for all the bridges we are burning and seeds of our collapse we're planting
When our two greatest competitors start throwing in together, our response is to threaten them for supporting each other? Toothless threats, at that. Because whatever economic leverage we had fending for our own interests throwing up tariffs against China went out the window when Joe Biden came into office anyway. This is like if someone took a chess board and opened up a file so they could march their king straight down the center.
This post was edited by Goomshill on Apr 6 2022 01:48pm