ABC News spoke with experts and officials about the challenges Russia and China's alliance poses to the U.S., the Biden administration's approach to Beijing, and how world leaders can avoid potentially catastrophic escalation.
's President Xi Jinping in Moscow, the visit signifies more than a celebration of the so-called "no limits" partnership between the two powers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow, Mar. 20, 2023.MORE: China's Xi to meet with Putin in Moscow Monday in show of supportWhile Xi's three-day state visit is a welcome signal of support for Putin's war effort, it also comes at a critical time for the Chinese leader as he tightens his authoritarian grip, formally locking down an unprecedented third term as China's president.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday said the dovish motivations claimed by Beijing were merely a façade, calling it "a stalling tactic at best" or an attempt "to facilitate an unjust outcome." "China has not condemned the war but they haven't provided lethal weapons. They haven't participated in sanctions the way we obviously would have preferred them to do," he added. "They have made their own sovereign decisions and largely, at least tacitly, many of those decisions have come down on the side of Russia here."
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Mar. 20, 2023.Publicly, the Biden administration streamlines its stance toward China into a single catchphrase: "Invest, align, compete." "Is the goal to sort of harden the West against China but assume that we're going to be coexisting indefinitely? Or do you see this conflict is such an existential challenge that the U.S. goal has to be to fundamentally change the nature of the Chinese regime to make it more compatible with the international system?" he questioned.
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