US warns China not to bail out the Russians

 Washington Examiner:

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“We have made it clear not just to Beijing but to every country in the world that if they think that they can basically bail Russia out, they can give Russia a workaround to the sanctions that we’ve imposed, they should have another thing coming, because we will ensure that neither China nor anyone else can compensate Russia for these losses,” Sullivan told NBC’s Meet the Press. “I’m not going to lay all of that out in public, but we will communicate that privately to China as we have already done and will continue to do.”

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“We also are watching closely to see the extent to which China actually does provide any form of support, material support or economic support, to Russia,” Sullivan said on CNN’s State of the Union, adding, “I’m not going to sit here publicly and brandish threats, but what I will tell you is that we are communicating directly, privately to Beijing that there will absolutely be consequences for large-scale sanctions evasion efforts or support to Russia to backfill them."

Sullivan also said, “We will not allow that to go forward and allow there to be a lifeline to Russia from these economic sanctions from any country.”

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I think the Europeans are also on board with this approach and that has also caused China to rethink its plans for invading Taiwan. 

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