Xi to Biden: don’t teach us how to live. China has decided on Ukraine

Before the decisive conversation between the two leaders, Washington conducted a powerful diplomatic artillery preparation, warning Beijing through all channels that American patience was running out, and China would pay a high price for further cooperation with Moscow.US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN, “We are closely monitoring the extent to which China provides material and economic support to Russia. We will not tolerate or allow any country to try to compensate Russia for its economic losses.”

Meeting in Rome on March 14 with a member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, head of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee Yang Jiechi (one of the key figures in Chinese foreign policy), Sullivan was able to personally verify that his threats did not reach the goal.

On the contrary, on the same day, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian at a briefing in Beijing pointedly told reporters that the United States “is spreading disinformation against China on the Ukrainian issue, pursuing malicious goals.” And in response to the US attacks, the speaker of the Chinese Foreign Ministry demanded that the US publish information about secret biological laboratories in Ukraine and other regions.

According to him, military biological activity in Ukraine is of concern to the world community, given that dozens of biological laboratories have been created in the country, which operates in the interests of the US Department of Defense, which has invested $200 million in them.

“The American side has always advertised the so-called openness and transparency. If this information is false, why not post the details to prove your sincerity. Why not open these Biolabs for independent research by international experts?” Zhao Lijian added, shifting the focus away from cooperation with Russia.

In fact, Washington, it seems, could not believe in any way that Beijing, contrary to instructions from the White House, took an independent position on this issue and continued to follow the line of a strategic partnership with Russia.

American representatives intensively probed the Chinese soil, trying to find sprouts of American Russophobia there or to convict Beijing of sympathy for Moscow and nail it to the pillory. Preparations were underway for a high-level conversation, but Beijing, in its characteristic manner of polite diplomacy, evaded direct answers.

And so, when Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with President Biden on March 19 , the world press started talking about Washington’s unfulfilled hopes. According to Politico magazine, the talks revealed serious disagreements between the two leaders over Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. The publication concluded that the conversation with the US president did not prompt Xi Jinping to use his influence with Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the military operation in Ukraine.

From what such a conclusion is drawn is difficult to say. After all, the negotiations were conducted over a closed video link. And the official information of the White House on this score is quite laconic.

Biden said in short: “The conversation was good.” And here is what the official press release says:

“The conversation focused on Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.  President Biden outlined the views of the United States and our allies and partners on this crisis. President Biden detailed our efforts to prevent and then respond to an invasion, including by imposing costs on Russia. He talked about the consequences if China provides material support to Russia, which will attack Ukrainian cities and civilians. The President stressed his support for a diplomatic solution to the crisis.”

After the talks, journalists bombarded the US administration official with questions, trying to get to the bottom of it: who did Xi support in the end: Biden or Putin? But nothing really became clear. Such is the cunning Chinese diplomacy. And the Americans, in turn, apparently are not eager to reveal their failure and hope that they will be able to set Beijing in the spirit they need…READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… – Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services