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US expects China 'not to get more tangibly involved' in Russia’s special op — official

Commenting on the agenda of the upcoming meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Dereck Hogan said that its participants would discuss assistance to Ukraine

WASHINGTON, March 31. /TASS/. The United States expects that China will not provide substantial assistance to Russia in a special military operation in Ukraine, US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Dereck Hogan said during a telephone briefing.

"And so when it comes to specifically something that we’ve been focusing on is the PRC providing - potentially providing Russia with lethal assistance, so far that hasn’t happened as far as we can tell. But we’ve been clear with the PRC from the beginning about our concerns of providing such support to Russia and the implications of that," Hogan said. He pointed out that the US were "expecting the PRC not to get more tangibly involved in Russia’s <…> [special military operation] that could lead to more loss of innocent lives and actions against PRC firms involved in such support". He added that the US and its allies would oppose "the PRC’s growing, deepening relationship with Russia, particularly when it comes to its support for Russia in <…> [its special military operation] in Ukraine".

Commenting on the agenda of the upcoming meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Hogan said that its participants would discuss assistance to Ukraine. "We need to make sure that Ukraine has what it needs to be able to mount a successful counteroffensive, and then of course to be able to hold what they do gain [in terms of territory]," he said.

Earlier, it was reported that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken would traveling to Brussels on April 3-5 to take part in a meeting of NATO foreign ministers and hold talks with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba.