The United States House Foreign Affairs chair says that a partnership of the Russian and Chinese leaders worries him, saying: “We have never seen a threat this large-scale to Europe and the Pacific, I would argue, since World War II.”
China rejects Western trade and financial sanctions on Russia because they weren’t authorized by the United Nations Security Council, where Beijing and Moscow have veto power. However, China has appeared to avoid directly defying those sanctions.
Finland, which shares a 1,340-kilometer border with Russia — more than doubling the size of NATO’s border with Russia — became the 31st member of the world’s biggest military alliance in April. But it wasn’t untilthat Turkey’s president agreed to send the accession documents to the Turkish Parliament for approval, something he had refused to do for more than a year.
The visiting U.S. Congressional Delegation also included Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.; Ann Wagner, R-Mo.; Gerry Connolly, D-Va.; Madeleine Dean, D-Pa.; Thomas Kean, R-N.J.; and Bill Huizenga, R-Mich. After Stockholm they were to travel to the Netherlands for bilateral meetings with Dutch government officials and members of parliament, among others.
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