US intelligence operation is on the same level as their MSM, actually they are the same package. The formula is "according to anonymous source, something has happened". They are basically throwing dump on the wall and hopping something to stick. It is their way to create a card that they don't have for bargaining and pressuring. It is desperate like a baby caught lying all the time and kept digging the hole.
I don't know why you read too much into what Chinese FM said in that statement. It has been China's position that it won't sell weapons to both Russia or Ukraine during this conflict. Western MSM has tried to corner China on this issue but with no available. Beside, Russia doesn't need Chinese weapons unless it wants to mobilize million of troops. With dual uses component from China, Russia is capable of sustaining the war with its own defense industry.
Ursula is probably briefing her CIA handler on how the discussions with Xi went, and is now waiting for further instructions on how to proceed.
That's wishful thinking. Qin Gang messed up here. Westerners need to be educated that if you bring business and polite words like Macron, you'll get a reward like a promise not to send weapons to Russia. And if you bring insults and no business, just give them a book on "core socialist values" and tell them that's better than their much celebrated European values.
France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, would have their share of leaders of a permanent member of the UN Security Council branded as war criminals if the international criminal court was unbiaised...
It is not about the value of concession but how she asked it. She threatened on a lot of things that should earn her the VDL treatment but not only did that not happen she earned a official promise. Even though China made it clear weapon deal between two sovriegn nation is none of their god damn business.
