WASHINGTON—By visiting Moscow to boost ties with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is demonstrating to the world his disregard for the “atrocities committed in Ukraine” and providing the isolated Russian leader with “diplomatic cover,” according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken made the remarks at a press conference on March 20 as […]
The United States and Russia held their highest-level face-to-face talks on March 2 since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov briefly on the sidelines of the March 2 G-20 summit in New Delhi, India. There is no indication of any easing in tension […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wrapping up a brief tour of Central Asia in Uzbekistan before heading to India for what is expected to be a contentious Ukraine-dominated meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of 20. Blinken met Wednesday in Tashkent with senior Uzbek officials a day after warning his counterparts from […]
The U.S. Department of State has pledged more than $444 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Yemen, bringing the total amount contributed by Yemen’s top donor to over $5.4 billion since conflict in the country began in 2014. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Feb. 27 that the donation illustrates “the […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged the international community to resist normalizing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s crimes in the ongoing war against Ukraine, while also downplaying Beijing’s proposal to end the conflict. Speaking at the United Nations Security Council on Friday—the anniversary of Russia’s invasion—Blinken stressed the need for member nations to uphold the […]
The Chinese regime likely gave the green light to allow Chinese firms to provide “dual-use” support to Russia for its military aggression in Ukraine, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “There has been some non-lethal dual-use type support coming from quote/unquote ‘Chinese companies’ that almost certainly was approved by the state, because there’s really […]
ISTANBUL—U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took a helicopter tour Sunday of one of the provinces worst-affected by the Feb. 6 earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria and pledged a further $100 million in aid to help the region. “This is going to be a long-term effort,” Blinken said at Incirlik Air Base, a […]
The Chinese regime could be considering providing lethal aid to Russia, according to U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, which, if confirmed, would represent an unprecedented escalation of China’s presence in the Russia-Ukraine war. “[F]or the most part, China has been engaged in providing rhetorical, political, diplomatic support to Russia. But we have information that […]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Beijing’s act of sending a surveillance balloon over U.S. airspace in the first bilateral meeting he had with his Chinese counterpart. “Just met with the PRC’s top diplomat, Wang Yi,” Blinken wrote on Twitter after their meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. “I condemned the incursion […]
