Biden Warns Xi against Supporting Russia

U.S. President Joe Biden warned Chinese President Xi Jinping that there would be consequences for Beijing if it provided “material support” for Russia amid invasion of Ukraine.

During the two-hour phone call on Friday, the two leaders discussed the developments with the Russian invasion and Xi's assessment of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s calculations along with Biden’s support for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis, according to a senior administration official.

The officials pointed out that the conversation was “direct, it was substantive and it was detailed.”

“The president really wasn’t making specific requests of China,” said the official. “He was laying out the assessment of the situation, what he thinks makes sense, and the implications of certain actions. You know, I think our view is that China will make its own decisions.”

China’s foreign ministry has showed support for Ukraine and promised to never attack the war-torn country.

Ambassador Fan Xianrong had told Lviv Governor Maksym Kozytskyi during a meeting that his country was a “friendly country for the Ukrainian people” and would “never attack Ukraine,” according to a summary posted on the Lviv government’s website.