Beijing gave Moscow “tacit support” in the Ukraine standoff, the Pentagon said on Feb. 14, calling the Chinese action “deeply alarming.” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby sounded the alarm during a press briefing on Monday, as Russia has positioned about 130,000 troops, as well as tanks and artillery, near Ukraine’s border. “Their tacit support, if you will, for Russia is deeply alarming,” Kirby said about China. “And frankly, [it’s] even more destabilizing to the security situation in Europe.” Kirby pointed to a Sino-Russia joint statement released by the two countries on Feb. 4, following a meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in China’s capital Beijing. “Their February 4 joint statement certainly provided further evidence that China has decided that they’re going to stand alongside Russia with respect to what’s going on in Europe.” “The statement itself leads in our view as tacit support,” he added. …
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