{"id":270191,"date":"2025-07-17T20:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270191\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T20:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:18:22","slug":"china-rejects-nato-chiefs-warning-of-us-sanctions-over-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270191\/","title":{"rendered":"China rejects NATO chief\u2019s warning of US sanctions over Ukraine war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beijing on Wednesday rejected NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte&#8217;s warning that Brazil, China, and India could be hit by secondary US sanctions if they maintain trade with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDialogue and negotiations are only way viable way out of the (Ukraine) crisis,\u201d China\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a news conference in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cChina opposes unilateral sanctions and long arm jurisdiction. Tariff wars have no winners (and) coercion and pressure will lead nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After meeting with US President Donald Trump, Rutte told reporters: \u201cPresident Trump said, basically, if Russia is not serious about peace talks (in Ukraine), within 50 days, he will slam secondary sanctions on countries like India, China, and Brazil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His comments came after Trump on Monday threatened to impose 100% secondary tariffs on Russia if a deal on ending the war in Ukraine is not reached within 50 days.<\/p>\n<p>Rutte added: \u201cThe US will now supply massively, Ukraine with weapons out of the US, not just air defense, also missiles, also ammunition paid for by the Europeans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin said: \u201cWe hope parties will help create the atmosphere and conditions for the political settlement of Ukraine crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding China comments by former US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who is Trump\u2019s nominee for the UN, Lin said: \u201cThese remarks reflect typical ideological bias, Cold War, zero-sum mentality, and China firmly rejects it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During his confirmation vote, Waltz had said: \u201cWe have to block and tackle Chinese influence (at the UN). \u2026 America must have a strong voice and, if confirmed, I\u2019ll work with Secretary (of State Marco) Rubio to challenge this influence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lin, however, called for \u201creasonable, concrete efforts\u201d by the US side for \u201csustainable\u201d bilateral ties \u201cinstead of doing the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL Beijing on Wednesday rejected NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte&#8217;s warning that Brazil, China, and India could be hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[5340,2106,1395,14787,48285,2000,299,730,10677,2992,18977,2821,332,1201,657,7498,978],"class_list":{"0":"post-270191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-cold-war","12":"tag-dialogue","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-india","16":"tag-lin-jian","17":"tag-mark-rutte","18":"tag-mike-waltz","19":"tag-nato","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-trade","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-un","24":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114870426201844005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}