Washington: The United States expects that China will not help alleviate the impact of Western sanctions against Russia and will respect the force of the restrictive measures, a senior US administration official said.
“The latest time suggests that China’s not coming to the rescue,” the official said during a conference call on Saturday.
“I think it was reported… that China was actually restricting some of its banks to provide credit to facilitate energy purchases from Russia, which suggests that much like has been the pattern for years and years, China has tended to respect the force of US sanctions.”
Meanwhile, the Chinese Embassy in Russia shared a “US bombing list” posted by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Twitter on Saturday, saying “Never forget who’s the real threat to the world.”
The list includes all the countries that have been targeted by the US since the end of WWII. These countries represent roughly one-third of the people on Earth.
On Saturday, the United Kingdom, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and the United States agreed on additional anti-Russia sanctions over the Ukraine situation.
They committed to ensuring that selected Russian banks are removed from the SWIFT system and that the Russian Central Bank is prevented from deploying its international reserves in ways that undermine the impact of sanctions.Â
