{"id":136829,"date":"2022-03-13T23:27:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T06:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/russia-has-requested-military-and-economic-assistance-from-china-us-officials-say"},"modified":"2022-03-13T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T06:27:10","slug":"russia-has-requested-military-and-economic-assistance-from-china-us-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/russia-has-requested-military-and-economic-assistance-from-china-us-officials-say","title":{"rendered":"Russia has requested military and economic assistance from China, US officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-has-requested-military-and-economic-assistance-from-china-us-officials-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia has asked China for military support, including drones, as well as economic assistance for its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, according to conversations CNN had with two US officials.<\/p>\n<p>The requests came after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, one of the officials said. That official declined to detail the Chinese reaction but indicated that the Chinese had responded.<\/p>\n<p>Potential assistance from the Chinese would be a significant development in Russia\u2019s invasion. It could upend the hold Ukrainian forces still have in the country as well as provide a counterweight to the harsh sanctions imposed on Russia\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has asked China for military support, including drones, as well as economic assistance for its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, according to conversations CNN had with two US officials. The requests came after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, one of the officials said. That official declined to detail the Chinese reaction but indicated that the Chinese [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,39,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-economics","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}