Posted on 02/25/2022 7:41:34 AM PST by Enlightened1
Americans presented Chinese officials with intelligence on Russia’s troop buildup in hopes that President Xi Jinping would step in, but were repeatedly rebuffed.
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......
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ROTFLMFAO!!!
Libs...they’re gonna get us all killed before it’s over.
China be like: Yeah, we know. We told them they should do it.
Brandon Junta really sold out the United States entirely to the Chinese for the enrichment of the Brandon Crime Family.
And Ukraine.
Begging for foreign policy help from the same people who killed 945,000 Americans with the Wuhan Flu?
Pitiful.
Weak pathetic idiots put into power through a stolen election beg the predator not to hunt prey.
These people all need real world @$$ whippings for being so stupid.
Actually they need to be on the streets of places ruined by their stupidity. I would drop them all off in Kiev or Detroit, wherever they are more likely to get permanent consequences for supporting the corrupt and stupid Biden regime.
Well according to Sleepy Joe, when asked about that yesterday, he said he was not prepared to answer that question! Of course not ! He doesn’t want to anger his masters who are lining his pockets! No one has asked the ChiComs anything!
To the US State Dept., “surrender is diplomacy by other means.”
Plugs: “Look Xi, I really need your help. You gotta talk to Vlad for me.. he won’t answer my calls..
Xi: “ What are your nuclear codes, Joe?”
Plugs: “..uhh, 25-84-61-99-02… never mind that! I need you to talk to Vlad.. I CANNOT have the Burisma stuff plastered on every news source.. Barack will really be upset with me..”
A two-year old would know to not rely on your enemy for support.
How far, impotent, and stupid we’ve fallen!
I imagine now our resident Sock Puppet will be beseeching our friend Putin to tell China to not attack Taiwan.
It all seems oddly hysterical. Ukraine is an incredibly corrupt and extremely poor country and former Soviet republic. Russia is drawing the line on further NATO expansion at their door step. WTF do we really care what happens other than to launder our own dot fed corruption?
“These people all need real world @$$ whippings for being so stupid.”
Unfortunately it will be the rest of us who will get the whooping, and probably worse.
It may be more than this. A lot of people feel that Putin wants to restore the Soviet Union, and so his decisions might be more emotional than rational.
Perhaps he's done it for several reasons.
Now the question is what, if anything we are going to do about it?
WTF do we really care what happens other than to launder our own dot fed corruption?
I'm always against corruption. The Biden crime family needs to go to jail.
That certainly seems likely.
Xi: “I’ll see what I can do...(laugh/cough)”
What a load of drivel.
This is an extremely crude and down right stupid attempt by the Biden apparatchiks to appear relevant
U.S. Officials Repeatedly Urged China to Help Avert War in Ukraine
They have it wrong. China tells the US and not the other way around. US officials bought and paid for by China. Not the bureaucrats starts much higher up.
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