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THE UNITED STATES is “confident” that China is considering providing lethal equipment to support the Russian forces invading Ukraine, according to CIA director William Burns. Such a step by China would be “a very risky and unwise bet,” the intelligence chief said in an interview aired Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “I hope very much that they don’t.” His comments, along with others Sunday by national security adviser Jake Sullivan, constituted the latest blunt US warning to China against providing lethal weaponry. But both Burns and Sullivan made clear that the United States has yet to detect signs that...
