The statement was delivered on Thursday by John Kelley, Acting U.S. Alternate Representative to the United Nations, according to Ukrinform’s correspondent in New York.

“China, as its representatives has pointed out, does not directly provide weapons to Russia. Nevertheless, China has become the decisive enabler of Russia’s war effort by being the most important supplier of Russia’s war industrial machine,” Kelley said.

He noted that specifically, China has provided Russia with significant quantities of machine tools, microelectronics, optics, UAV and cruise missile technology, and nitrocellulose, which Russia uses to make propellant for weapons.

“If China were serious about helping to end the war, it would stop providing these critical components to Russia,” Kelley said.

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    Wow interesting that the US representative can dig around in the supply chain to find materials China sells that Russia might make into weapons.

    Meanwhile Israel’s far worse crimes are given diplomatic cover of threats and vetos, the US sells them all their war planes, tanks, guns, and bombs. They give them access to intelligence information, technology, and prop up their entire economy and state with billions in aid.

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    China is enabler of russian aggression against ukraine, but what does that make usa then russian ally, puppet… This is hypocritical, coming from usa, lets not forget that the usa, not china, stopped arms shipments to ukraine and has been pushing for a peace plan that is heavily one-sided to russian interest