The United States is 'confident' that China is considering providing lethal equipment to support the Russian forces invading Ukraine, according to CIA director William Burns.
THE UNITED STATES is “confident” that China is considering providing lethal equipment to support the Russian forces invading Ukraine, according to CIA director William Burns.
“We actually haven’t seen them take a final decision… and we haven’t seen the aid be provided to Russia,” Sullivan said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Putin “believes today that he cannot win for a while, but he can’t afford to lose,” said Burns, a former deputy secretary of state. But Burns said he had conveyed to Naryshkin “the seriousness” of US warnings against Russia ever resorting to nuclear weapons in Ukraine. And he added it was “very valuable” that the leaders of China and India had separately underscored that point.
But his comments came days after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said China was “considering providing lethal support.”
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