Wed 01 February 2023:
A senior Ukrainian lawmaker has called for the United States to impose secondary sanctions on China and India if they keep buying Russian energy, urging total solidarity against Moscow’s invasion.
On a visit to Washington, Oleksandr Merezhko, who heads the foreign affairs committee in Ukraine’s parliament, also called for greater ties with Taiwan, the self-governing democracy claimed by Beijing.
Merezhko said he has faced criticism at home that a tougher stance on oil purchases could push China to step up support to Russia, with Beijing for now stopping short of military assistance to Moscow.
“I’ve been trying to explain that this is not the problem. China is not afraid of Ukraine; China is afraid of American sanctions,” he told reporters of the State Department Correspondents’ Association.
“Which means the United States can and should deter China from helping Russia and preferably introduce secondary sanctions to stop China from financing the Russian economy and the Russian military machine by buying Russian oil and gas,” he said.
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