{"id":64320,"date":"2024-05-23T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T02:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/23\/china-russia-lethal-aid-ukraine-war-uk-defence-secretary-us"},"modified":"2024-05-24T01:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T16:28:03","slug":"china-sending-russia-lethal-aid-for-ukraine-war-uk-defence-secretary-says-in-split-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64320","title":{"rendered":"US challenges British claim China is sending \u2018lethal aid\u2019 to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK defence secretary, Grant Shapps, made claim as Russia begins fresh offensive in north-east of Ukraine with strikes on Kharkiv<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">See all our Ukraine war coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s administration has challenged a claim by the British defence secretary, Grant Shapps, that China is sending \u201clethal aid\u201d to Russia for use in its war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Wednesday, Shapps cited \u201cnew intelligence\u201d that suggested Beijing was giving Moscow deadly \u201ccombat equipment\u201d for the first time. On Thursday, the Ministry of Defence in London said it would not give further details.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/23\/china-russia-lethal-aid-ukraine-war-uk-defence-secretary-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK defence secretary, Grant Shapps, made claim as Russia begins fresh offensive in north-east of Ukraine with strikes on KharkivSee all our Ukraine war coverageJoe Biden\u2019s administration has challenged a claim by the British defence secretary, Grant Sh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,50,997,221,419,52,930,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-defence-policy","category-europe","category-russia","category-uk-news","category-ukraine","category-us-news","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\/64320","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64344,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64320\/revisions\/64344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}