Biden starts to decouple economy from China ( www.lockhaven.com )

Brewing in the background is the growing fear that China is cozying up to America’s adversaries.

For a while, China seemed to be playing the useful role of peacemaker between Ukraine and Russia. But as time goes on, it’s shown to be clearly in Russia’s corner.

In April last year, the Chinese ambassador to France said in an interview that “ex-Soviet Union countries” are not sovereign states under international law. That would include Ukraine.

This did not sit well with the French, who fear further advances by Vladimir Putin’s Russia could pull NATO into a war. And it sat even less well with Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the Baltic states perpetually feeling threatened by a Russian invasion.