China is closely watching the Russian conflict in Ukraine and it affects the accounts of Chinese leaders for CIA Director William Burns said Saturday that Taiwan, the self-governing island claimed by Beijing.
Burns, speaking in the Financial Times event in The Chinese said Washington government He was shocked by Ukraine’s fierce resistance to Russia invasion And through the economic costs borne by Russia.
“I think the Chinese leadership is looking very carefully at all of this — the costs and the consequences of no effort to use force to control over Taiwan”.
However, he warned that it would not change Chinese President Xi Jinping’s rule for long.term Objectives for Taiwan.
“Me, no for I think for a minute this has eroded Shi’s determination over It’s time to take control over Burns said: Taiwan, but I think it’s something that affects their calculations how And when they do.”
China refused to condemn the Russian war in Ukraine criticized Western sanctions on Moscow.
Beijing and Moscow announced an “unlimited” strategic partnership several weeks before February 24 invasionand worked to establish closer relations in the fields of energy and security in Recent years to pay back on The United States and the West.
But Burns said the United States believes that China has not stabilized due to reputational damage of being related with “brutality” of Russian President Vladimir Putin military a job.
“I think what a bitter experience in many ways, of Putin’s Russia in Ukraine over The last 10 or 11 weeks of doing that is proving that that friendship actually has some limits,” Burns said.
