Politico: Sullivan warns China could face costs if it supports a Russian invasion of Ukraine
China's president released a joint statement with Vladimir Putin last week.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday warned that there could be costs for China, too, if the country is seen as backing a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The comments come just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping stood side by side at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. The more than 5,000 word statement released following the Putin-Xi meeting said the “friendship between the two States has no limits” and that “there are no ‘forbidden’ areas of cooperation.”
The U.S. has warned Moscow of “severe economic costs” if troops move across Ukraine’s border. And those costs could affect China as well, Sullivan said on ABC’s “This Week,” though he said he believes China understands it is not positioned to “compensate Russia for the economic losses that would come from our sanctions.”
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Update: Sullivan: China will "end up owning some of the costs" if Russia invades Ukraine (Axios)
WNU Editor: Threatening/warning China in a public forum on what they should do never goes over well in Beijing. My guess is that the Biden administration is doing this because they have no leverage on China, or are unwilling to exercise what they have.