they thread this needle right, they can play both sides and keep the trade with the united states and keep their partner in russia happy. let s talk about the shift. it has seemed to me their support isn t full throated for what putin is doing and this is from the washington post among shifts in wording, it was xi s decision to call the invasion a war for the first time speaking with german and french counterparts, describing the war the way putin wants it described as a special military operation or situation. they did sort of stand to the side in the u.n. when the rest of the world condemned russia but do you detect any movement in china s direction toward being with the rest of the world rather than being with this rogue country? the extension was significant. again, it s just saying they re not going to participate but they usually when it came to the sierran war and invasion of crimea, they would generally support full throated defense of russia but what they re looking at is
deteriorating? some of it is strategic, joy. the idea that russia and china were together against the west when russia had been supporting china in it s expansion in the east. president xi has to try to thread the knee l between maintaining a relationship with the largest neighbor saying it is still a friend of russia while also condemning the attacks in ukraine and not being seen as supporting that. now, china does have a significant amount of u.s. debt. it is technically $1 trillion in u.s. treasury, the largest foreign bank. they have leverage over us and the leverage of the u.s. takes more imports of all of the consumer goods, the semi conductor shortage is largely because of supply chain and production issues in china so they have deeply embedded economic dies with the united states so they think they if
ability to form their own opinion. right? so this idea that you could somehow you just got somebody to see something it would magically do something to the putin regime is a basic misunderstanding of how the country works. you know, what you ve described to me sunds a lot like north korea. i hope you come back soon. i have so many questions. i could do this all night. thank you so much. still ahead, with russian forces on the out skirts of kyiv, the battle is about to enter the bloodiest combat as yet, i ll talk to someone who experienced this firsthand about what to expect. i ll be right back. nd about what to expect i ll be right back
this third largest city of ukraine is crucial, putting more than 100,000 civilians at risk. russia spent the past few days claiming any targeting of civilians is fake news and wasted time spouting the conspiracy theory there are bio weapons labs in ukraine. this is how linda thomas green field responded. last week we heard from the russian representative a tirade, a bizarre conspiracy theory. this week, we re hearing a whole lot more where that came from. russia has repeatedly, repeatedly accused other countries of the very violations it plans to perpetrate. we continue to believe it is possible that russia may be planning to use chemical or biological agents against the ukrainian people. with me now from lviv is cal
system, we need special anti air systems and don t you can t provoke russia more because now they re totally destroyed in ukraine and if you look to putin, not only criminal war crime nil putin, their entire nation of russians are poisoned with war propaganda so they support putin s strategy and it s all about propaganda so we need to have weapons to get offensive from them. if we don t do this, next be europe. yeah. city mariupol council member, maxine, these images are horrific. we re thinking of you-all.