Report: Joe Biden Got Absolutely Played by China on Russia and Ukraine
By Bonchie | Feb 25, 2022 10:00 AM ET
As intense fighting in Ukraine continues as a result of Russia’s invasion, a new report offers some shocking details about how inept Joe Biden’s strategy was in trying to prevent the current carnage.
Per The New York Times, the Biden administration actually gave classified intelligence to the Chinese communists in an effort to gain their support against Vladimir Putin. Predictably, that completely backfired and only helped Russia in its march toward war.
Over three months, senior Biden administration officials held half a dozen urgent meetings with top Chinese officials in which the Americans presented intelligence showing Russia’s troop buildup around Ukraine and beseeched the Chinese to tell Russia not to invade, according to U.S. officials.
Each time, the Chinese officials, including the foreign minister and the ambassador to the United States, rebuffed the Americans, saying they did not think an invasion was in the works. After one diplomatic exchange in December, U.S. officials got intelligence showing Beijing had shared the information with Moscow, telling the Russians that the United States was trying to sow discord — and that China would not try to impede Russian plans and actions, the officials said.
There are two parts to this, in my view.
The first is how silly it was to think that sharing intelligence with China would lead to anything but it ending up in the hands of the Russians. By going to the Chinese, one of Russia’s most trustworthy allies, the United States telegraphed that we were already playing defense. Begging Xi Jinping to stop Putin, making it known to our adversaries that we had no grander counter in the works? No doubt, both men enjoyed a good laugh over that one. As a matter of strategy, the move was asinine and counter-productive, likely only emboldening Russia.
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