State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller announced on Tuesday that Secretary of State Antony Blinken will raise White House concerns about China's military assistance to Russia during an upcoming meeting in the communist country later this month.
"What we have seen over the past months is that there have been materials moving from China to Russia that Russia has used to rebuild that industrial base and produce arms that are showing up on the battlefield in Ukraine," Miller told reporters.
Last week, unnamed U.S. intelligence officials revealed to several media outlets that China has significantly boosted its sales of precursor products to the Kremlin, which are used in the production of military equipment, since the start of the 2022 war in Ukraine.
The sources allege that some of the provisions include materials to build drones and missiles, optical implements, microelectronics, aviation parts, and machine tools.
One of the officials described the effort as Russia's "most ambitious defense expansion since the Soviet era” while predicting Moscow “would struggle to sustain its war effort without PRC inputs.”
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