The US is preparing to cut Chinese banks off from the rest of the world. Secretary Blinken will travel to China this week to tell them to stop exporting dual-use military hardware to Russia and if they don’t, the plan is to then sanction China and cut its banks off from the global financial network. China up until recently compiled with American warnings to not export arms to Russia – but now they’re exporting commercial goods that also have military uses. They’re currently the largest supplier of Russia’s war effort, providing over 30,000 aircraft and weapon parts a month. And the US says that China can’t have it both ways - they can’t claim to be a friend of Europe while fueling the biggest threat to Europe. And for their part Europe is now adjusting its policies to follow the US on sanctions. With US officials saying “the hope is that we get the Europeans to read China the riot act”. China called the prospect of sanctions for it’s aid to Russia “bullying”
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Produced by: Ben Wheeler, Philip DeFranco
Edited by: Ben Wheeler
Art Department: William Crespo
Writing/Research: Ben Wheeler, Philip DeFranco
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