US Department of State Building in Washington DCWASHINGTON, Feb. 3 The US has the tools to enable them to » influence» on Chinese companies if they try to mitigate the effect of possible Western sanctions on Russia in connection with the situation around Ukraine, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Thursday. «We have a set of tools that we can use if we see that companies, including from China, are doing everything possible to mitigate the effect of the US measures (against the Russian Federation) in terms of export controls, help (Russia) avoid them or bypass them,» Price said during a regular briefing. As noted Price, Washington «has the tools to solve this problem.»
