{"id":56065,"date":"2025-12-08T07:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=56065"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:10:38","slug":"china-warns-europe-seizing-russian-assets-will-backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/china-warns-europe-seizing-russian-assets-will-backfire\/","title":{"rendered":"China Warns Europe: Seizing Russian Assets Will Backfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56067\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/China-Europe-Russia-e1765180451347.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" \/>China Pakistan Monitoring Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">ISLAMABAD : China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian delivered a sharp response to the European Commission&#8217;s proposal to use frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine, calling it a violation of international law and a dangerous precedent.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a regular press conference on December 2, Lin stated that &#8220;China consistently opposes unilateral sanctions that violate international law and lack authorization from the UN Security Council&#8221;.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s where it gets interesting: Lin didn&#8217;t just criticize the legality\u2014he warned about the economic consequences. According to the Chinese official, &#8220;such actions will undoubtedly undermine the credibility of Europe&#8217;s financial and banking system and erode international confidence in it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He added that parties should focus on creating favorable conditions for peace talks instead of escalating tensions.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission&#8217;s proposal aims to raise around 140 billion euros through frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>But China&#8217;s warning raises a critical question: if major powers can unilaterally freeze and seize sovereign assets, what does that mean for the stability of the global financial system?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Pakistan Monitoring Desk ISLAMABAD : China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian delivered a sharp response to the European Commission&#8217;s proposal to use frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine, calling it a violation of international law and a dangerous precedent. Speaking at a regular press conference on December 2, Lin stated that &#8220;China consistently opposes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[3255,54,385,2197,4066],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56071,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56065\/revisions\/56071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}