White House press secretary Jen Psaki says China has to 'make a decision' after President Biden and China’s leader Xi Jinping spoke.
has magnified the looming question of China's role in the world and it has worsened tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Analysts say Beijing's decision – whether to overtly support Russian President Vladimir Putin's war or to distance itself from the Kremlin's military assault on Ukraine – is shaping up to be an inflection point in the U.S.-China relationship. Chinese officials described the call as"constructive" and said both leaders agreed to "make respective efforts for the proper settlement of the Ukraine crisis.", the White House is pressing Beijing to join the global condemnation of Moscow's invasion and prevent Ukraine from becoming a wider proxy war that could reshape the international order forged over the last century.
Despite reversing several of Trump's policies, Biden has continued to take an aggressive stance on China, leaving in place tariffs on more than $350 billion worth of Chinese goods, for instance.
"It will put the trajectory of the relationship more firmly on a path of intense rivalry," Blanchette said. But China has sought to play both sides in the weeks since the invasion, declining to condemn Russia for the ongoing assault and instead shifting the focus on its support for"sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries, including Ukraine," as Qin Gang, China's ambassador to the U.S.
"War is bad for Chinese business so there's no advantage to China for this to drag on and yet that's what's happening," he said."The economy is paramount and China has a lot more to lose on this than Russia." "China is not a party to the crisis, nor does it want to be affected by the sanctions,"
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