{"id":34718,"date":"2022-01-24T13:55:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T21:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=34718"},"modified":"2022-01-24T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T21:55:46","slug":"biden-pushing-russia-into-forming-super-alliance-with-china-putin-further-in-xis-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/biden-pushing-russia-into-forming-super-alliance-with-china-putin-further-in-xis-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden pushing Russia into forming super alliance with China – Putin ‘further in Xi’s arms’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0has been slammed for failing to curb\u00a0Russia<\/a>‘s aggression over Ukraine. The Nation Editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel believes Mr Biden’s response to the build-up of Russian forces on the Ukrainian border has only succeeded in pushing Putin to pursue closer ties with China’s President Xi Jinping.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Vanden Heuvel told Sky News Australia: “This is going to push Russia further into the arms of the Chinese if it proceeds without a resolution with the West, with the European alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You know, interestingly Ukraine could be a part of both east and west part of Russia, part of EU, part of the European alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Putin and Xi are meeting next week I believe at the Olympics, what strikes people in this country is that there was a thought that there would be a heavy pivot to Asia, to China, to Taiwan to deal with those issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But instead, the United States has gotten kind of caught up in this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She continued: “To the point where President Biden spoke honestly at his press conference last week when he said if it’s a small incursion, I mean, it should be led with if it’s a diplomatic resolution, but a small incursion let all these people call him in appeaser if he didn’t bring troops to bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He was talking about punitive sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But you know, the sanctions regime has already been imposed on Russia to a large extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Any additional sanctions are going to bring blowback to the Europeans and possibly to China.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Vanden Heuvel added: “So I think there’s a folly in the way the United States foreign policy is operating to bring Russia and China together in this instance.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Putin that an invasion of Ukraine would be a “disastrous step” that could see Russia bogged down in a bloody and protracted conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Johnson said he did not believe war was inevitable and there was a chance that “sense can still prevail”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But confirming the exit of some British staff from the embassy he said: “We do think it prudent to make some changes now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Biden\u00a0has been slammed for failing to curb\u00a0Russia‘s aggression over Ukraine. The Nation Editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel believes Mr Biden’s response to the build-up of Russian forces on the Ukrainian border has only succeeded in pushing Putin to pursue closer ties with China’s President Xi Jinping.\u00a0 Ms Vanden Heuvel told Sky News Australia: “This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":34723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cr2-e1643061335342.png?fit=700%2C522&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34724,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718\/revisions\/34724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}