The U.S. is worried about being backed into a corner after Xi Jinping visited his dear friend to discuss the Chinese proposal to end the war in Ukraine.
What happened? Washington has publicly expressed skepticism about China's blueprint to end the war in Ukraine, saying a ceasefire would lock in Russia's territorial gains.
An official in the Joe Biden administration, who asked not to be identified as discussing internal deliberations, told Bloomberg that the proposals had caused a sense of unease within the government.
The U.S. reservations of dismissing China's plan outright could cause Beijing to argue to other countries that are weary of the war that the U.S. isn't interested in stopping the war, the source said.
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If the Biden administration doesn't agree with the agreement, China will ramp up messaging that the U.S. is opposed to a ceasefire, and that the U.S. is opposed to the end of the war, according to Bonny Lin, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
There will be lots of ways in which China will try to spin whatever comes from the China-Russia meeting in a way that portrays the U.S. in a negative light. Throughout the war, the Biden administration tried to keep Xi on the sidelines, but the opposite appears to have happened as Xi and Vladimir Putin agreed to implement their plan.
As Xi left, Russia pounded Ukraine with missiles, killing eight people in the Kyiv region and one in Zaporizhzhia, officials said.
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