The U.S. secretary of state is on his second visit to China in a year, but progress on issues including Ukraine and sparring in the South China Sea will be hard to make.
TOKYO — Amid growing U.S. worries that Russia’s war on Ukraine is being made possible by Chinese support for Moscow’s defense industry, Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to arrive in China on Wednesday on a three-day mission to push leaders to cut ties with the Kremlin.
“When it comes to Russia’s defense industrial base, the primary contributor in this moment to that is China,” Blinken told reporters last week after a meeting of leading world economies in Italy, saying that China has been sharing machine tools, semiconductors and other items that have helped Russia rebuild its defense industry two years into its full-scale war in Ukraine.
But in recent months a steady stream of Cabinet secretaries has visited Beijing, while Chinese officials have made the return trip to the United States. Blinken isn’t even the first member of President Biden’s Cabinet to visit China this month, after Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen led an economic delegation andby drinking beers in Beijing — even as she threatened sharper tariffs on steel and aluminum.
and the Philippines together in the White House, part of a broader U.S. push to build small groupings of countries to work together to respond to Chinese activity.Beijing has been especially unsettled by that U.S. strategy, arguing that the Biden administration is rerunning the Cold War playbook of containment that it once deployed against the Soviet Union. U.S.
Blinken will need to convince Xi that this latest appeal is not an attempt to “drive a wedge” between him and Putin, said Bonnie Glaser, director of the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund, a think tank.
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