Can Biden Deter China From Entering the War for Ukraine?

Not by using the Chips Act to force suppliers to provide child care to their employees.

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President Xi at the Great Hall of the People at Beijing, September 30, 2022. AP/Ng Han Guan
ELI LAKE
ELI LAKE

In the coming days, the Chinese communist tyrant Xi Jinping will decide whether to begin arming Russia in its war on Ukraine. That is at least the assessment of the American intelligence community, according to the CIA director, William Burns.

On Sunday he told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that China’s leadership was “trying to weigh the consequences” of providing Russia with lethal equipment for the war that President Putin launched a year ago.

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