China vowed to strengthen its support for Russia after Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Moscow’s trading partners, APA reports citing Telegraph.
Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, said the two countries should “strengthen mutual support on multilateral forums” after meeting Russia’s foreign minister in Beijing.
The US president on Monday threatened to hit Russia’s main trading partners, including China, with 100 per cent tariffs if Putin does not sign a peace deal in 50 days.
Mr Xi said following his meeting with Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday that trust between China and Russia had “deepened”, and the two states were “setting a model for a new type of international relations”.
Beijing, a diplomatic and economic ally of Moscow, claims to be neutral in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. China’s foreign minister said it cannot afford for Russia to lose the war because it fears Washington would then shift its focus to Beijing, according to leaked reports of a meeting with EU officials.
Mr Trump’s tariff threats were dismissed by a senior Russian official on Tuesday as a “theatrical ultimatum”, though the Kremlin is yet to formally respond.
“Trump issued a theatrical ultimatum to the Kremlin,” Dmitry Medvedev, who was once the country’s president, posted on X this morning. “The world shuddered, expecting the consequences. Belligerent Europe was disappointed. Russia didn’t care.”
This morning, Mr Trump said he was “disappointed but not done with” Putin in a late-night interview with the BBC.
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