China’s tight bond with Russia is facing renewed condemnation from Washington and its allies after NATO issued its strongest accusation yet that Chinese technology is sustaining Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Leaders from the NATO alliance, meeting in Washington, declared that Beijing “cannot enable the largest war in Europe in recent history” without facing repercussions.
Despite a widening web of Western bans and restrictions, Chinese semiconductors, machine tools and other parts have become vital to Russia’s arms industries, helping Moscow to keep up its grinding war, say American and European officials, intelligence agencies and security experts.
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NATO Calls China a ‘Decisive Enabler’ in Russia’s War on Ukraine Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made the accusation, which was in a declaration approved by the 32 leaders of the alliance, during the NATO summit in Washington on Wednesday.
As NATO allies agreed today in our summit declaration, China has become a decisive enabler of Russia’s war against Ukraine. And China’s support increases the threat Russia poses to Euro-Atlantic security. China cannot enable the largest conflict in Europe in recent history without this negatively impacting their interest and reputation. China provides dual-use equipment, microelectronics, a lot of other tools, which are enabling Russia to build the missiles, to build the bombs, to build the aircraft, to build the weapons they are using to attack Ukraine.
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