{"id":52766,"date":"2023-02-20T00:05:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T15:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/19\/china-may-be-on-brink-of-supplying-arms-to-russia-says-blinken"},"modified":"2023-02-20T00:05:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T15:05:32","slug":"china-may-be-on-brink-of-supplying-arms-to-russia-says-blinken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52766","title":{"rendered":"China may be on brink of supplying arms to Russia, says Blinken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state meets with top Chinese diplomat, Wang Yi, and warns of \u2018serious problem for us\u2019 if Beijing supplies weaponry to Vladimir Putin<\/p>\n<p>The US has said it believes China may be about to provide lethal aid to help Russia in the war in Ukraine, prompting a direct warning against doing so from the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, to China\u2019s top diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken made the warning to the Chinese state councillor Wang Yi on Saturday evening at a meeting on the sidelines of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/17\/zelenskiy-ukraine-munich-summit-russian-offensive\">Munich security conference<\/a> during which he also rebuked China over the use of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/feb\/18\/us-china-relations-antony-blinken-wang-yi-balloon\">alleged spy balloon over US soil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/19\/china-may-be-on-brink-of-supplying-arms-to-russia-says-blinken\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state meets with top Chinese diplomat, Wang Yi, and warns of \u2018serious problem for us\u2019 if Beijing supplies weaponry to Vladimir PutinThe US has said it believes China may be about to provide lethal aid to help Russia in the war in Ukrain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,221,419,930,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-us-foreign-policy","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52767,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52766\/revisions\/52767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}