"He is to some extent,": Xi Jinping carefully monitors the war in Ukraine - CIA

The official stated this at hearings in the Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives on global threats, CNN reports. "I really think no one watched Vladimir Putin's experience in Ukraine more carefully than Xi Jinping, and I think he is to some extent, at least this is our analysis of how much the West was able to preserve solidarity and absorb some brief urgent economic costs In the interests of imposing even greater long -term economic costs for Russia, " - said Burns.

The CIA Director noted that Xi Jinping should remember the solidarity of countries in economic pressure on the Kremlin when he tries to restore China's development and cooperation with other states. "This is what SI President should weigh when he comes out of the zero period of the Covid-19, trying to restore China's economic growth, trying to interact, you know, with the rest of the world economy," Burns said.

Journalists also report that the CIA representative's thesis was picked up in the US Congress and cited as an argument in disputes with skeptical assistance to Ukraine by colleagues. Proponents of her further support are quoted by Berns to outline China's counteraction to one of the key reasons to continue to help Ukrainians in the fight against Russian invaders.

We will remind, on March 9 at the Media Nikkei ASIA reported that Chinese experts of the Academy of Military Sciences (AMS) at the People's Liberation Army of the PRC modeled a conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Experts concluded that the war would end until the fall of 2023. AMS consider the victory of the aggressor country.