By Humeyra Pamuk, Simon Lewis and David Brunnstrom
NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken underscored strong U.S. concerns about China’s support for Russia’s defense industrial base in talks on Friday with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, saying Beijing’s talk of peace in Ukraine “doesn’t add up.”
In a meeting with Wang on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Blinken said he also raised China’s “dangerous and destabilizing actions” in the South China Sea and discussed improving communication between their militaries.
Blinken told a press conference he and Wang also discussed ways to disrupt the flow of drugs into the United States, and the risks posed by artificial intelligence.
About 70 percent of the machine tools Russia is importing and 90 percent of the microelectronics come from China and Hong Kong, Blinken added.
That was materially helping Moscow to produce the missiles, rockets, armored…
