According to the authors of the annual report, Beijing will maintain its diplomatic, defense, economic and technological cooperation with Moscow in order to continue trying to challenge Washington.WASHINGTON, March 8.
/tass/. China will maintain multifaceted cooperation with Russia, including in the economy and military sphere, despite the pressure on Beijing and Moscow from the West. Such a forecast is contained in an unclassified version of the annual report of the American intelligence community on "global threats" to the United States.
Despite the "global discontent" with the Russian special operation in Ukraine, China "will maintain its diplomatic, defense, economic and technological cooperation with Russia in order to continue trying to challenge the United States, even though it will reduce public support" for Moscow, according to a report distributed on behalf of the office of the Director of National Intelligence of the United States Avril Haines.
This document was made public on Wednesday in connection with the hearings in the special committee on intelligence of the Senate of the US Congress, at which the heads of US intelligence agencies speak in open and then closed mode.
