{"id":1899678,"date":"2023-03-16T16:42:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T20:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-hasnt-seen-china-provide-lethal-aid-to-russia-pentagon-says\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T20:44:04","slug":"us-hasnt-seen-china-provide-lethal-aid-to-russia-pentagon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-hasnt-seen-china-provide-lethal-aid-to-russia-pentagon-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US hasn&#8217;t seen China provide lethal aid to Russia, Pentagon says"},"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%2Fus-hasnt-seen-china-provide-lethal-aid-to-russia-pentagon-says%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=1899678&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-->\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-7 col-lg-8 col-xl-9 float-left body colgap-l-50\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\">\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-articleBodyWrapper\">\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78971781\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Military releases footage showing Russian fighter jet forcing down US drone over Black Sea\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"The U.S. military has released footage that depicts a portion of the Tuesday encounter between two Russian fighter jet pilots and the U.S. drone they forced down. 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However, they warned of serious consequences. Brig. On Thursday, Gen. Patrick Ryder stated to reporters that they haven&#8217;t yet seen it happen.<\/p>\n<p><b>US HAS &#8220;GROWING CONCERN&#8221; OVER CHINA\u2019S RELATIONSHIP w\/ RUSSIA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of right now, we&#8217;ve not seen any legal assistance transferring from China to Russia for use on the battlefield in Ukraine,&#8221; He added that they have to do it. &#8220;keeping a very close eye on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chinese companies are reported to have sent Russian forces a thousand assault rifles, and other equipment, between June and December 2013. <i>Politico<\/i> The report cited data from a customs data aggregater. Russian entities also received a dozen drone parts shipments and more than 12 tons of Chinese body armour. It is unclear whether any of these rifles made it to the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know there&#8217;s some press reports out there talking about some trade deals,&#8221; Ryder responded to the report. &#8220;That in and of itself is not unusual. China and Russia share a trade relationship. But the key point being is that as of right now, we&#8217;ve not seen any legal assistance transferring from China to Russia for use on the battlefield in Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The National Security Council did not comment on the report. It directed the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> Jake Sullivan, national security advisor, made these remarks at a gaggle earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p><b>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would not be in China&#8217;s interests, from our perspective, for them to supply weapons to Russia for use on the battlefield in Ukraine, but that&#8217;s a sovereign decision China will have to make for itself,&#8221; He said. &#8220;And as I personally said before, we think it would be a big mistake for China to do that because Russia is using those weapons to kill civilians and commit war crimes. And China should want nothing to do with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russia has received lethal aid from Iran, in the form of hundreds unmanned drones. North Korea also provided weapons to the Wagner Group paramilitary group.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read More from&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/us-hasnt-seen-china-provide-lethal-aid-to-russia\">According to Pentagon, the US has never seen China provide lethal assistance to Russia.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. still has not seen any intelligence to indicate China has supplied Russia with lethal aid for the use in Ukraine. U.S. officials have said for about a month now that Beijing was considering such a move, which they warned would incur significant consequences. 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