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The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are “confident” that Beijing are “considering the provision of lethal equipment” to Russia.
The White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN that if China does send “lethal aid” to Russia this will come at a “real cost” to Beijing.
He said that thus far China has not moved any lethal aid to Moscow which would help Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, but such a move would have “serious consequences.”
Sullivan told CNN’s State of the Union programme, “Beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds, whether it provides military assistance, but if it goes down that road, it will come at real costs to China.”
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CIA Director William Burns also weighed in and told CBS, “We’re confident that the Chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment.
“We also don’t see that a final decision has been made yet, and we don’t see evidence of actual shipments of lethal equipment.”
The West has been given a grim warning that China’s support for Putin threatens “our whole way of life.”
Wang Yi who is the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy met with Putin on Wednesday and Beijing’s top diplomat said that China and Russia will reach a “new consensus” to advance their relationship “between major powers.”
Author Ian Williams wrote in the Daily Mail, the Chinese President and Putin are “both tyrants, who are not bound by the same constraints as our leaders,” this “makes it much harder for our intelligence agencies to predict what might happen.”
He said, “The consequences are almost beyond imagination. Everything about Vladimir Putin’s insane invasion of Ukraine has been unthinkable, but if China weighs in with open support for the Russian dictator’s beleaguered army, then our whole way of life could be threatened.”
He added, “If the day comes when China starts openly providing weapons, it will redefine global politics in a way we haven’t seen since the Cold War.
“Even the darkest days of the simmering conflict between the USSR and NATO cannot compare to the cataclysm threatening to engulf us if China gives arms to Russia.”
The Chinese diplomat said that both Beijing and Moscow support “multipolarity and democratisation of international relations.”
Williams said, “This is a clear indication that both Beijing and Moscow have the same view to counter US dominance, particularly over the tensions with the US over Taiwan, Putin strongly supports his counterpart over this.”
Williams added, “But Xi and Putin are tyrants, who are not bound by the same constraints as our leaders. That makes it much harder for our intelligence agencies to predict what might happen.”
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Tuesday that there “will be a world war” if China sends “lethal aid” to Russia and sides with Putin.
Zelensky told German daily newspaper Die Welt, “I would like [China] to be on our side. At the moment, however, I don’t think it’s possible.
“But I do see an opportunity for China to make a pragmatic assessment of what is happening here. If China aligns itself with Russia, there will be a world war and I do think that China is aware of that.”
