U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman says the ‘range of sanctions’ and export controls co-ordinated among U.S. allies and partners against Russia should serve as an example for China’s leader Xi Jinping
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.
“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 co-ordinated Western response over Ukraine that any moves by China to take the democratically governed island of Taiwan by force would not be acceptable.
China has refused to condemn Russia’s action in Ukraine or call it an invasion and has criticized Western sanctions on Moscow, although a senior Chinese diplomat said last week that Beijing is not deliberately circumventing those sanctions. Sherman said Beijing was showing signs of being “conflicted” about being so closely linked to Russia, including following the emergence of grim images of bodies of civilians shot at close range in the northern Ukrainian town of Bucha when it was retaken from Russian forces.
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