NEW YORK, February 28. /TASS/. US President Joe Biden said he does not anticipate China to provide significant military assistance to Russia for its special military operation in Ukraine.
In an interview with the ABC television company, which aired on Friday evening, Biden said that he had discussed this issue with Chinese President Xi Jinping last summer.
"I said <...> this is not a threat. It is just an assertion statement what I think the reality is. <...> And I said if you are engaged in the same kind of brutality by supporting the brutalities going on, I said you may face the same consequences," Biden noted meaning the withdrawal of a number of Western companies from Russia.
"I don't anticipate — we haven't seen it yet, but I don't anticipate a major initiative on the part of China providing weaponry to Russia," the US President said.
When asked whether Washington would consider that Beijing had "crossed the line" if it began to supply weapons to Russia, Biden replied:
"The same line, everyone else would have crossed. In other words, we would impose severe sanctions on anyone who has done that. <...>We would respond.".