According to the agency, the Trump team seeks to move away from the basic principle of the foreign policy of the previous US President Joe Biden, who considered relations with all other countries through the prism of war in Ukraine.
The interlocutors said that the United States want to focus on issues that directly connect Washington with Beijing and are more important for America’s national interests. It is, in particular, about tariffs, technological restrictions and rare -earth metals.
At the same time, some interlocutors emphasized that Trump can at least change his position.
Context
From the beginning of the full -scale attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine in February 2022, China is publicly trying to adhere to a neutral position and calls for negotiations, but at the UN it often votes in the same way as Russia, and, according to media reports, can supply its military equipment.
According to the United States, in the spring of 2024, China has strengthened the support of the Russian Federation, provides it with intelligence, optics for military equipment, rocket fuel, tank production and other goods. The then Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the PRC is the main supplier of military machines to Russia.
On October 17, 2024, the United States imposed the first sanctions against Chinese firms for the help of Russia in the production of UAVs.
On November 15, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, citing three sources, reported that China first provided the Russian Federation for use in the war against Ukraine.
The fact that Beijing helps Moscow to produce military drones and supplies Western details in its annual report was also written by Estonian intelligence.
On April 17, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reported the possible supply of gunpowder and artillery in the Russian Federation.
On May 29, Bloomberg wrote that China limited the export of drones, in particular Mavic, and components to drones for Ukraine and the West, but also supplies them to Russia.
