mounting concern tonight that china may increase its support of russia by arming it with lethal weapons as u.s. officials warn china that doing so would cross a red line. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy raised an alarm that china s involvement would risk what the president of ukraine calls world war iii. the giopolitical fault lines deppen further as china s top diplomat traveled to russia today. let s get some insight right now from a white house insider who was directly involved in planning president biden s unprecedented very dangerous trip to kyiv. john is serving us. he serves as principal deputy national security advisor. thank you for joining us on this day. we ll get to china in a moment. but let s start with the
and safety being the utmost priority, we were better off letting the russians know so they could deconflict anything they were contemplating because we didn t want them to misperceive any activity or treat it in the wrong way. we conveyed that information just before the president departed and, again, everything went more or less as planned. in regards to china right now, this is a huge issue. you heard president volodymyr zelenskyy s warning today that ch china s support for russia could lead to a third world war. does the white house share those fears? leaving aside that ultimate worst-case scenario, we have mounting concerns about chinese support for russia s war. antony blinken spoke about this earlier in the week. china is making a public presentation about the desire to
taken from russia. it will be a brutal deadly fighting season. the ukrainians think they have the advantage. jim, thank you very much. just ahead, what happens if china joins in on this ukraine invasion. president volodymyr zelenskyy offering a very, very grave warning to the world tonight. how worried is the united states about talk of world war 3? we ll ask president biden s deputy national security adviser. standing by live. stay with us. you re in the situation room. they customize your car insurance. so you only pay for what you need! whoo! we gotta go again. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. it s easy to get lost in investment research. introducing j.p. morgan personal advisors. -hey david connect with an advisor to create your personalized plan. -let s find the right investments for your goals okay, great. p. morgan wealth management.
play a role in diplomacy to try to end the war. meanwhile, we have concerns they may be increasing their support to russia. our strong view is if china is interested in ending the war, they should talk to the ukr ukrainians and consult about what their requirements would be and not funneling increasing amounts of support potentially to russia which could stop this war at any moment if it desired to do that. what action is the biden administration willing to take if china offers lethal support to russia? look, we don t want to get ahead of any decisions. we have been quite clear about our concerns. we have options available to us, but we are not about to lay them out in advance of conversations we had with the chinese, that we have with the ukrainians and our partners and allies that share the concerns we have spoken about publically during the course of recent weeks. we have seen how this war shifted the u.s. position on military aid to ukraine ramping
who are concerned about american jobs? either his administration or anyone else the history starting with nafta and before that is states like pennsylvania lose out. that s why pennsylvania and ohio and a lot of states working against this kind of policy that s why we know we lose out if this happens. we have to make sure the basic protections that workers insist upon and should insist upon are in it. workers rights level the playing field when it comes to environmental protections, so we don t have a trade agreement with some country that s polluting the air or water and democracy sure that our workers have a basic level playing field. the president said that ch china s writing the rules in this and that s why we has to