US. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 23The United States, building a sanctions front against Russia united with the European Union, seems to be testing the future mechanism for containing China, a diplomatic source told RIA Novosti. the mechanisms that are being built now in relation to confronting us, these are the steps that could not be agreed upon after 2014, this is the creation of a united sanctions front with the European Union,» the source said. He stressed that the coordinated sanctions measures now being taken are «an attempt to build a front as part of a future confrontation with China.» The source recalled that under the administration of Donald Trump, transatlantic economic and political coordination was disrupted. But if you look at the situation in the middle of last year, already under the Joe Biden administration, then the cold trade war between the United States and the European Union began to fade away: the parties, among other things, agreed on a moratorium on a number of duties, the dispute between Airbus and Boeing was settled, and the Transatlantic Council for Trade and Technology (TTK). «The current situation is the building of this front. And we are now the object on which this mechanism of global confrontation, let's say, is being tested,» the source noted. On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» In response, Western countries have introduced several «pacts» of anti-Russian sanctions — sectoral and personal. Many foreign companies have suspended their work in the Russian Federation. The restrictive measures also affected Belarus, which the West accused of supporting the Russian military special operation in Ukraine.
