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Pentagon says China gave ‘tacit approval’ to Putin as CCP lays blame for Ukraine with US
By: Jerry Dunleavy - Justice Dept & Washington Examiner News - 03-04-22
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While the Pentagon accuses China of "at least tacit approval" of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, China has repeatedly sought to lay blame at the feet of the United States, calling it one of the “culprits of the crisis.”

China is Russia’s most powerful ally, and Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met at the start of the Olympics in February to announce a broad strategic partnership amid Russia's military buildup on Ukraine's border. Since the full-scale invasion was launched, China has carefully avoided condemning Russia as Russia seeks to shift blame for the Ukraine invasion to the U.S. and the West.

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“We’ve seen, basically, through statements, some at least tacit approval by the Chinese for what Russia was doing,” Defense Department spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday. “Now, in the last few days, some of their Foreign Ministry spokespeople have appeared to walk some of this back a little bit by talking about Ukrainian sovereignty, which is welcome to see. But we haven’t seen China join the list of countries that have enacted sanctions on Russia. We haven’t seen the Chinese blame Mr. Putin for the violence he is causing.”

Kirby added: “Instead, they’ve been blaming the United States — incredibly — that our support for Ukraine has somehow precipitated this invasion of a sovereign state.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin reiterated the point by blaming the U.S. on Thursday and Friday.

The Chinese spokesman pointed to thoughts from the 1990s by former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union George Kennan, a recent article by “famous U.S. expert on international relations” and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, and comments by former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who said last month that “this war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden Admin/NATO had simply acknowledged Russia’s legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine’s becoming a member of NATO.”

“Those who created the problem should be the ones to undo it,” Wang said Thursday. “We hope the culprits of the crisis can reflect upon their roles in the Ukraine crisis. They should earnestly shoulder due responsibilities and take real actions to ease the situation and resolve the problem instead of shifting the blame to others.”

TAIWAN CONDEMNS RUSSIAN INVASION

Wang again played the blame game on Friday.

“The U.S. has been spreading disinformation time and again, and smearing China with the Ukraine issue,” Wang claimed. “Fabricating rumors to shirk one’s own responsibility is very hypocritical and despicable. Spreading disinformation cannot help the U.S. shift its responsibility.”

Wang’s blaming of the U.S. on Thursday was precipitated by a New York Times article this week, which contended that a Western intelligence report “said senior Chinese officials told senior Russian officials in early February not to invade Ukraine before the end of the Winter Olympics in Beijing,” which indicated that “senior Chinese officials had some level of knowledge about Russia’s war plans” before the invasion.

Wang dismissed the report as "pure fake news."

“Such practice of diverting attention and blame-shifting is despicable,” Wang said.

Putin and Xi met in Beijing on Feb. 4, just before the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.

China and Russia then issued a more than 5,300-word joint statement, claiming the “friendship between the two States has no limits” and that “there are no ‘forbidden’ areas of cooperation.” The two said “Russia and China stand against attempts by external forces to undermine security and stability in their common adjacent regions” and that they “will increase cooperation.” The China-Russia statement also said, “The Russian side … opposes any forms of independence of Taiwan.”

The China-Russia joint statement did not mention Ukraine directly but said: “The sides oppose further enlargement of NATO and call on the North Atlantic Alliance to abandon its ideologized Cold War approaches."

The Olympics ended on Feb. 20, and Putin’s full-scale invasion began on Feb. 24.

Kirby responded on Wednesday to reports that Xi told Putin not to invade Ukraine until after the Olympics.

“I don’t have a comment on these reports that there was a request by China to wait until after the Olympics. I think that’s an excellent question for President Xi and his administration to speak to if they made such a request,” Kirby said. “We tried, hard, to prevent the war through diplomatic engagement. There was no need for it to happen — not to happen on a certain timeline or after a certain Olympic event. It shouldn’t have happened at all."

Kirby added: “The issue of time is one that Mr. Xi ought to have to answer.”

Xi reportedly spoke with Putin last Friday, with China avoiding a direct condemnation of Russia’s moves.

China abstained from a U.N. General Assembly vote on Wednesday that called for Russia to “immediately, completely, and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine.” Five countries — Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea, and Syria — voted against it, and 35 abstained.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry claimed the resolution didn’t “take into consideration the history and the complexity of the current crisis."

It was also reported by the New York Times last week that senior Biden administration officials held multiple meetings with Chinese leaders in the lead-up to the invasion, with the U.S. showing intelligence demonstrating the increase of Russian troops. The outlet reported Chinese officials pushed back and said China would not block Russia’s efforts.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said last Friday: “As it relates to China, you know, I would say that the President’s view, of course, is that now is the time for leaders of the world to not just speak out clearly against President Putin’s flagrant aggression and to stand with the people of Ukraine, but this is not a moment for equivocation or hiding or waiting to see what happens next.”

NewsTags: Russia - China - War in Ukraine - Xi Jinping & Vladimir Putin
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