The US has also appealed to the G-7 countries including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, which are also most NATO members to increase the pressure on Russia by putting tariffs on India and China. All these countries are the leading buyers of Russian oil.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and US President Donald Trump. (Photo: ITG GFX)
The US has urged the European Union to impose tariffs on Russian oil buyers, so that Putin can be pressured to end the Eucign War. On this, China gave a strong message to Washington on Saturday. During the state visit to Slovenia, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that Beijing neither plotting wars nor participates in them. He insisted that war problems are not solved and economic restrictions only increase complications.
Wang Yi’s statement came a few hours after the letter from US President Donald Trump, in which he appealed to NATO member countries to stop purchasing Russian oil and put a tariff of up to 100 percent on Moscow’s biggest buyer China. Trump wrote in a letter addressed to NATO members and the whole world, ‘I am ready to impose a big restriction on Russia when all NATO nations agree and start doing so, and when all NATO nations stop buying oil from Russia.’
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Trump wrote in his letter that the purchase of Russian oil by some NATO members is shocking. He said that this weakens the power to talk and deal with Russia. The US President appealed for collective action and said that he had gone to take action against Russia when NATO members agreed. He wrote in the letter, ‘I am ready when you are ready. Just when to say? ‘ America has already imposed tariffs to buy Russian oil on India, but has not yet imposed any tariff on China.
The US has also appealed to the G-7 countries including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, which are also most NATO members to increase the pressure on Russia by putting tariffs on India and China. All these countries are the leading buyers of Russian oil. US Finance Minister Scott Besant told the G-7 finance ministers, “Only by united efforts we will be able to put enough pressure on the Russian economy and end this war.”
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Earlier this week, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in which he said that Beijing and Washington should not deviate from their path or do not lose speed and move forward together. China is Russia’s largest oil buyer, which has imported a record 109 million tonnes of oil in 2024, which is about 20 percent of its total energy imports. The US claims that this purchase is funding Russia to continue the war against Ukraine.
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