Putin Gets Chinese Plaudits for Calling Pelosi Trip ‘Planned Provocation’

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  Putin Gets Chinese Plaudits for Calling Pelosi Trip ‘Planned Provocation’ Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, February 4, 2022. A senior Chinese Communist Party official publicly praised Vladimir Putin after the Russian leader criticized Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent Taiwan visit as “a carefully planned provocation.” Beijing’s show of support for Putin follows the recent  announcement  of joint Sino-Russian military exercises on Russian territory. Putin made his first public remarks on the heightened tensions in the Taiwan Strait during a global-security conference in Moscow earlier this week. “The American adventure in Taiwan wasn’t just a trip by an irresponsible politician. It was part of a deliberate and conscious U.S. strategy intended to destabilize the situation and create chaos in the region and the entire world, a blatant demonstration of disrespect for another country’s sovereignty and its own international
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Ukraine Update: White House Rebuffs Calls for Ban on Russian Oil
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Russia countered claims by U.S. and European officials that its attack on Ukraine is bogged down amid tough resistance, with President Vladimir Putin saying the military operation “is going according to plan.” 

Putin also told France’s Emmanuel Macron on Thursday that he plans to fulfill the goals of his invasion, having made clear previously he wanted to remove the government in Kyiv. Russian troops have advanced on the southeast city of Mariupol, although Ukraine still has control there, a senior U.S. defense official said. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy again appealed to Putin to meet with him. “I have to talk to Putin, the world has to talk to Putin, because there is no other ways to stop this war,” he said.

More than a million refugees are fleeing to neighboring countries, according to the United Nations, adding to the humanitarian crisis that is also occurring inside Ukraine. 

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White House Rebuffs Call to Ban Russian Oil (7:36 p.m.)

The White House again rebuffed a call to ban Russian oil from the U.S., this time from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, one of President Joe Biden’s closest allies.

“We don’t have a strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy, and that would raise prices at the gas pump for the American people around the world, because it would reduce the supply available,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at a briefing Thursday. “That is certainly a big factor for the president.”

Russian oil made up only about 3% of all crude imports in the U.S. last year. “Ban it. Ban the oil coming from Russia,” Pelosi told reporters earlier Thursday, making her the highest-ranking Democrat to endorse the move.


Ukraine's Zelenskiy Says He Had 'Good' Contact With Biden
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy spoke to reporters in Kyiv today. He says he’s had “good contact” with President Joe Biden. He said it’s a “pity” the contact didn’t happen before the war.
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