SIKORSKI ON CHINA
When requested about Chinese language assist for Russia, Sikorski mentioned China is “honouring the thickest of our purple strains and never supplying Russia with precise army tools”.
“However it has supplanted European firms in Russia, and it is supplying Russia with many dual-use items,” he mentioned, referring to items that may find yourself getting used on the battlefield.
“We monitor to what extent the sanctions which have been imposed, monetary and others, are being revered.”
Sikorski urged China to make use of its leverage to steer Russia to finish its struggle towards Ukraine.
“China would get itself a variety of goodwill and a variety of gratitude in Europe if it informed Vladimir Putin sufficient is sufficient, (and that) Russia wants to return again to throughout the fold of worldwide regulation,” he mentioned.
“We want Russia to cease making an attempt to rebuild the Russian Empire, and we’d like China … to inform Russia that the time of European colonial empires is over.”
In the meantime, Europe is watching the rivalry between China and the US with some apprehension, mentioned Sikorski.
“China is a companion and a competitor on the identical time, and we wish that rivalry to be performed on the proper temperature, with out boiling over,” he added.
