China is aligned with 'agents of disorder'

The United States ambassador to China, R. Nicholas Burns, said the Biden administration is making a last push to try to persuade China to stop transferring equipment to Russia for the war in Ukraine.

- By KEITH BRADSHER

Burns, in an interview at the US embassy in Beijing, asserted that nearly 400 Chinese companies have supplied Russia with so-called dual-use products, those with both military and commercial applications. He also said China has supplied 90 percent of the microelectronics used in the Russian war effort.

With less than two weeks remaining before president-elect Donald Trump takes office, Burns is raising the administration's concerns about Russia, as well as China's alignment with Iran and North Korea, with Chinese ministers in a series of meetings this week. He leaves the country Tuesday.