Posted on 03/10/2014 8:48:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Obama administration is stepping up its attempts to court China’s support for isolating Russia over its military intervention in Ukraine.
With official comments from China appearing studiously neutral since the Ukraine crisis began, President Barack Obama spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping late Sunday in a bid to get Beijing off the fence.
The call was their first known conversation since Russian forces took control of Ukraine’s pro-Moscow Crimea region. It came amid signals that Russian President Vladimir Putin was hardening his position on Crimea, which is due to vote on joining Russia in a referendum this weekend that the U.S. and its allies have vowed not to recognize.
In making his case, Obama appealed to China’s well-known and vehement opposition to outside intervention in other nations’ domestic affairs, according to a White House statement. …
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Putin needs to be able to “Sanctions Bust”. If he has his puppet states and his allies take a neutral stance, it is far less likely that we will target them with similar “revolutions”, sanctions, or other direct actions. It also allows Putin to bypass any sanctions put on his country. Remember that Putin plays chess while Obama plays marbles.
Actually Obama may indeed have some leverage.
China is currently running a (massive) trade surplus with the United States.
318 billion I believe, in 2013.
That is some serious leverage. Just saying.
China will go after Taiwan.
Is that that Hopey Changey Thingy again?
If Hussein made a comment about a checkers game, I’d check the official rules; Hussein doesn’t know jack s**t about anything.
Bump
Oh hell ya! Especially since dumb ass opened his big mouth and stuck his foot in it. He crawled to the Chinese? What an idiot.
Prolly ....
Bump
Didn’t know Obama was General Secretary of the CPC.
I would just love see the Dalai Lama whack Obama upside the head
LOL.
Like Russia really cares what the Red Chinese think...
So Obama is going to rely on China now? Goodbye Taiwan
Russian Chinese relationship will be very interesting to watch in the next six months.
They’ve been doing joint military exercises for close to a decade now. Not a relationship at arm’s length.
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