This is why Joe Biden said ‘no comment’ yesterday when asked about China and Ukraine…

by The Right Scoop

Yesterday it was curious when Joe Biden was asked if he had been urging China to help isolate Russia and he essentially responded with ‘no comment’:

Now we know why. Joe Biden did in fact urge China to stop Russia on several occasions, even showing them evidence of how Putin was amassing troops. China refused and then went behind Biden’s back and shared US intelligence with Russia:

Here’s more from the NY Times:

Over three months, senior Biden administration officials held half a dozen urgent meetings with top Chinese officials in which the Americans presented intelligence showing Russia’s troop buildup around Ukraine and beseeched the Chinese to tell Russia not to invade, according to U.S. officials.

Each time, the Chinese officials, including the foreign minister and the ambassador to the United States, rebuffed the Americans, saying they did not think an invasion was in the works. After one diplomatic exchange in December, U.S. officials got intelligence showing Beijing had shared the information with Moscow, telling the Russians that the United States was trying to sow discord — and that China would not try to impede Russian plans and actions, the officials said.

The previously unreported talks between American and Chinese officials show how the Biden administration tried to use intelligence findings and diplomacy to persuade a superpower it views as a growing adversary to stop the invasion of Ukraine, and how that nation, led by President Xi Jinping, persistently sided with Russia even as the evidence of Moscow’s plans for a military offensive grew over the winter.

This account is based on interviews with senior administration officials with knowledge of the conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the diplomacy. The Chinese Embassy did not return requests for comment.

Of course China is going to react this way. They’ve got plans to do the same with Taiwan, so there’s no way they’re going to criticize Putin for doing what they want to do at some point in the future. No, they’re watching all of this play out and are taking notes.

You’d think as much as Biden praised his good friend Xi Jinping, who he said he spent many hours with when he was VP, that he might have known that Xi would side with Russia.


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