US intelligence announces increased cooperation between Russia and China
12 March 2024 08:29
In a report on the 2024 threat assessment, US intelligence agencies said that Russia is receiving economic assistance from China and is increasing imports of Chinese goods that could be used for military purposes. This was reported by Reuters, according to Kommersant Ukrainian 
The report mainly focuses on the threats from China and Russia, the United States’ biggest rivals, after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
China has been providing economic and security assistance to Russia as it wages war in Ukraine, supporting Russia’s industrial base, the report said. It also warned that China could use technology to try to influence this year’s US elections.
In her testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Director of National Intelligence Avril Gaines urged lawmakers to approve increased military aid to Ukraine. According to her, it is “hard to imagine how Ukraine” can hold the territory it has recaptured from Russia without additional assistance from Washington.
The threat report states that trade between China and Russia has been growing since the start of the war in Ukraine, and Chinese exports of potentially military goods have more than tripled since 2022.
The US intelligence community also said that the US is facing an “increasingly fragile world order” that is plagued by great power competition, transnational challenges and regional conflicts.
“An ambitious but restless China, a confrontational Russia, some regional powers such as Iran, and more powerful non-state actors are challenging the long-standing rules of the international system, as well as U.S. primacy in it,”
– the intelligence service believes.
It should be noted that Li Hui, Special Representative of the People’s Republic of China for Eurasia, visited Kyiv on 7 March as part of his shuttle diplomacy tour.
The visit was part of the Chinese special envoy’s trip to Europe to “seek a political solution to the Ukrainian crisis”. The special envoy started his tour in Moscow.
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