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白俄罗斯总统亚历山大-卢卡申科正在访问北京,与习近平会面,这凸显了美国和中国在乌克兰战争问题上日益扩大的分歧。
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美国官员对北京可能向俄罗斯运送致命武器表示担忧,并一直在密切关注任何此类货物。
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美国中央情报局局长威廉-伯恩斯表示,美国严重关切中国向俄罗斯提供致命装备的问题,并强调不这样做的重要性。
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中国发表了一份关于乌克兰战争的12点立场文件,呼吁和平,并将自己定位为冲突中的中立和平者,但也批评了使用制裁和扩大军事集团的做法,呼应了俄罗斯关于战争是由北约扩张挑起的说法。
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中国拒绝谴责俄罗斯对乌克兰的入侵,但试图将自己定位为和平缔造者,据北约秘书长称,这种角色缺乏可信度。
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白宫国家安全顾问Jake Sullivan表示,美国正试图向中国表明,向俄罗斯提供具有军事用途的两用技术将使中国付出实际代价。
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查塔姆大厦智囊团中国问题高级研究员余杰表示,对俄罗斯的军事援助将在经济上和政治上对习近平的领导层造成巨大的损害。
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美国的政治家们越来越一致地反对北京,这一点将在众议院关于应对中国构成的战略威胁的委员会会议上得到体现。
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中国正在寻求重新建立与欧洲这个重要贸易伙伴的关系,因为中国去年的经济增长只有3%,是1976年以来最差的。
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美国总统乔-拜登驳斥中国的和平计划,认为其中没有对俄罗斯以外的任何人有利,而法国总统埃马纽埃尔-马克龙则认为中国的和平努力是一件好事。
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习近平与普京的亲密盟友卢卡申科的会晤在国际上被视为中国同情心所在的一个标志。
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预计习近平将在未来几个月在莫斯科访问普京。
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Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, is visiting Beijing for a meeting with Xi Jinping, highlighting the growing divide between the US and China over the war in Ukraine.
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US officials have expressed concerns that Beijing may send lethal weapons to Russia and have been watching closely for any such shipment.
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The director of the CIA, William Burns, stated that the US is seriously concerned about China providing lethal equipment to Russia and emphasized the importance of not doing so.
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China published a 12-point position paper on the war in Ukraine, calling for peace and positioning itself as a neutral peacemaker in the conflict, but also criticized the use of sanctions and expanding military blocs, echoing Russia’s claim that the war was provoked by NATO’s expansion.
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China has refused to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but has tried to position itself as a peacemaker, lacking credibility for such a role according to Nato’s secretary general.
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The US is trying to make clear to China that providing dual-use technology with military applications to Russia will come at real costs to China, according to Jake Sullivan, the White House’s national security adviser.
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Military assistance to Russia will cause colossal damage both economically and politically to Xi’s leadership, according to Yu Jie, a senior research fellow on China at the Chatham House thinktank.
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US politicians are increasingly unified in their opposition to Beijing, which will be on show at a House of Representatives committee meeting on dealing with the strategic threat posed by China.
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China is seeking to reset its ties with Europe, an important trading partner, as its economic growth was just 3% last year, the worst since 1976.
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President Joe Biden has dismissed China’s peace plan as containing nothing beneficial to anyone other than Russia, while France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, views China’s peace efforts as a good thing.
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Xi’s meeting with Lukashenko, a close ally of Putin, is seen internationally as a sign of where China’s sympathies lie.
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Xi is expected to visit Putin in Moscow in the coming months.
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