Biden assures Eastern European allies as Russia, China confer -
Mr. Biden spent the morning meeting in Warsaw, Poland with leaders of the Bucharest Nine, a group of countries that make up NATO’s flank closest to Russia’s western borders. The group, made up of lands once in the Soviet bloc during the Cold War, includes Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
Mr. Biden reaffirmed that if Russia attacks any Eastern European nation, the U.S. would invoke the NATO charter’s Article 5, which stipulates that an attack against one member of the military alliance is an attack against all the members.In response to Russia’s invasion, NATO has doubled its presence in the region in the last 12 months to eight multinational battle groups. Some 10,000 American soldiers are now stationed in Poland alone.
China, Mr Wang said, would “not be overpowered” by “coercion or pressure” from other parties to back off from its deepening alliance with Russia. Amid rumors that China may offer its own plan to end the fighting, Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to give a “peace speech” Friday in Beijing on the war’s anniversary.
“Big mistake,” Mr. Biden told reporters on his way to the Bucharest Nine meeting. It was his first comment since Mr. Putin announced Russia would suspend its observance of the treaty, known as New START, a decision which the lower house of the Russian parliament endorsed on Wednesday. The treaty limits the number of deployed intercontinental nuclear weapons and permits both the U.S. and Russia to conduct inspections of each other’s weapons sites.
“You’re the front lines of our collective defense and you know, better than anyone, what’s at stake in this conflict, not just for Ukraine but for the freedom of democracies throughout Europe and around the world,” Mr. Biden told the leaders.
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