{"id":1411038,"date":"2022-03-30T17:30:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T21:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411038"},"modified":"2022-03-30T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T21:30:33","slug":"european-union-warns-china-not-to-support-russian-invasion-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/european-union-warns-china-not-to-support-russian-invasion-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union Warns China Not to Support Russian Invasion of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feuropean-union-warns-china-not-to-support-russian-invasion-of-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411038&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>The European Union (EU) said on Wednesday that it plans to deliver an ultimatum to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in a virtual summit on Friday that assisting the Russian invasion will be punished with sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Ukraine war \u2013 and China\u2019s warm relationship with the Kremlin \u2013 will overshadow the meeting at which the EU is looking to show its hardening line toward China and warn against any active support for Russia at the summit,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/china-eu-summit-russia-ukraine-invasion\/31776638.html\"><span>Radio Free Europe<\/span><\/a><span> (RFE) reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>RFE noted China is talking a great deal about its partnership with Russia but has \u201cso far quietly adhered to Western sanctions\u201d and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/03\/14\/u-s-warns-china-not-to-assist-russian-invasion-of-ukraine\/\"><span>denied reports<\/span><\/a><span> that Russia has asked it for military equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>An EU official told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/03\/30\/eu-to-pressure-china-at-summit-over-its-stance-on-russia-ukraine-war.html\"><span>CNBC<\/span><\/a><span> on Wednesday that a key goal of Friday\u2019s summit will be \u201censuring, in a way, the neutrality of China so they don\u2019t help Russia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Other EU officials billed the summit as \u201ca defining moment for EU-China relations\u201d and said the original agenda of \u201csmall initiatives\u201d had been scrapped to focus on the \u201ckey message\u201d that \u201cthere will be consequences if China does circumvent sanctions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>CNBC noted various European leaders pleaded with China last week to use its influence with Russia to stop the war in Ukraine, but now the EU seems to be falling back to a position of warning China to stay out of the war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFriday\u2019s summit was meant to be an opportunity to put a year of EU-China tensions in the rearview mirror and forge new ground for cooperation. Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and China\u2019s refusal to condemn Moscow\u2019s attack, however, have decisively dampened European expectations of a reset,\u201d analysts at the Eurasia Group observed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The United Kingdom <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/25\/britain-threatens-to-sanction-beijing-if-it-arms-russia-in-ukraine-war\/\"><span>warned<\/span><\/a><span> China last week that it will face sanctions if it sends weapons to Russia, much as the U.K. has already sanctioned Belarus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnyone who wants to support the outrageous and illegal invasion of a democratic nation needs to be cognizant of what they\u2019re doing and the impacts that is going to have elsewhere,\u201d British International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said last Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A Trafalgar Group survey published on Wednesday found 74.7 percent of respondents supported the U.S. imposing sanctions on China if China is caught providing aid to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A majority of respondents \u2013 American nationals \u2013\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/news\/nat-issues-china-sanctions-0324\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> that China should face \u201csimilar\u201d measures to the crushing international sanctions imposed on Russia if Beijing begins providing direct assistance to the Russian invasion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The partisan breakdown revealed little difference between the parties on the issue, as 70 percent of Democrats supported sanctions against China compared to 78 percent of Republicans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trafalgar does not appear to have quizzed its poll respondents at length about what kind of \u201caid\u201d should trigger U.S. sanctions against China. U.S. officials have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/15\/china-has-already-decided-to-send-economic-aid-to-russia-in-ukraine-conflict-us-officials-fear\"><span>argued<\/span><\/a><span> China is already aiding the Russian invasion by giving it political cover and economic assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union (EU) said on Wednesday that it plans to deliver an ultimatum to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in a virtual summit on Friday that assisting the Russian invasion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}