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During a rare visit to Beijing by Blinken, China and the United
States agreed on Monday to stabilise their intense rivalry so it
did not veer into conflict, but failed to produce any major
breakthrough.
Blinken said however that he had asked the Chinese government to
be very vigilant about the possibility that Chinese firms may be
providing Russia with technology that it could use in its war in
Ukraine, something Moscow calls a "special military operation."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Beijing had the
sovereign right to forge ties with other countries and that the
process of trying to build predictable relations between China
and the United States was an important one.
Russia did not think there was a risk of U.S.-China talks
causing problems for Moscow, he said.
"Our strategic partnership relationship with China make us
confident that (Beijing's) development of relations with other
countries will never be aimed against our country," Peskov said.
Hit with sanctions by the United States and the European Union
over Ukraine, Russia has sought in Beijing a market for its
energy exports and a partnership in a global anti-Western axis
that would challenge the existing world order.
Xi visited Russia in March, pledging friendship, but maintaining
an "impartial position" on the Ukraine conflict. A peace plan
proposed by Beijing has so far produced no breakthrough.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by
Andrew Osborn)
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