Frustrated with the U.S., Ukraine is cutting deals with a rival superpower, inviting China to build infrastructure while holding back criticism of Beijing's human rights record.
Just days before the cooperation deals were clinched, Kyiv chose to stay silent about China's alleged human rights abuses.
The Associated Press, citing anonymous sources, first reported that China threatened to cancel vaccine shipments if Ukraine did not withdraw its support for the joint letter led by Canada. But Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to the Ukrainian president's office, later delivered a blunt warning to the U.S. and its allies.
Zelenskyy also had been asking for a face-to-face meeting with Biden for months, and it was not until last week that the White House announced that Biden would host him for a U.S. visit Aug. 30. The gist of the government's approach amounts to:"If you don't fully support us, we will go to China," the source said.
China also often extracts political favors from countries in exchange for trade or infrastructure arrangements, former officials and experts said. A Ukrainian serviceman stands at his position with Russian-backed separatists near the small city of Marinka in the Donetsk region on April 20."This was a political decision that irritated the Chinese side. It was a painful slap from official Kyiv," said Sergiy Gerasymchuk of theA State Department spokesperson said that the U.S.
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