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- RTHK
'Russia will not give Ukraine security guarantee'
'Russia will not give Ukraine security guarantee' Volodymyr Zelensky (left) will meet US President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday, accompanied by Ursula von der Leyen (right) and other European leaders. Photo: Reuters Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday rejected the idea of Russia offering his country security guarantees, after US and EU officials promoted the possibility. White House envoy Steve Witkoff earlier said US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to "robust security guarantees" for Ukraine during a meeting in Alaska on Friday. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday hailed the proposal as an offer of NATO-style security guarantees from the United States. "We welcome President Trump's willingness to contribute to (NATO) Article 5-like security guarantees for Ukraine, and the coalition of the willing, including the European Union, is ready to do its share," von der Leyen said. Zelensky also welcomed the idea of US security guarantees -- but was less positive about Russia's intentions. "What President Trump said about security guarantees is much more important to me than Putin's thoughts, because Putin will not give any security guarantees," he told a press conference in Brussels alongside von der Leyen. "Security means a strong army, which only Ukraine can provide. I believe that only Europe can finance this army." Von der Leyen and Zelensky also shared their thoughts on a possible meeting between Trump, Putin and the Ukrainian leader. "So far, Russia gives no sign that the trilateral will happen and if Russia refuses, then new sanctions must follow," Zelensky said. Von der Leyen had said she wanted to see the three-way meeting happen "as soon as possible". Zelensky will meet Trump in Washington on Monday, accompanied by von der Leyen and other European leaders. (AFP)
South China Morning Post
5 hours ago
- South China Morning Post
US envoy Witkoff says Putin agreed to Nato-like security protections for Ukraine
US envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his Alaska summit with President Donald Trump to allow the US and European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling Nato's collective defence mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war. Advertisement 'We were able to win the following concession: that the United States could offer Article 5-like protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in Nato,' he said on CNN's State of the Union. Witkoff said it was the first time he had heard Putin agree to that. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, speaking at a press conference in Brussels with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said that 'we welcome President Trump's willingness to contribute to Article 5-like security guarantees for Ukraine' and the 'coalition of the willing, including the European Union, is ready to do its share'. Witkoff, offering some of the first details of what was discussed at Friday's summit in Alaska, said the two sides agreed to 'robust security guarantees that I would describe as game-changing'. He added that Russia said it would make a legislative commitment not to go after any additional territory in Ukraine. Advertisement Trump on Sunday posted 'BIG PROGRESS ON RUSSIA. STAY TUNED!' on his Truth Social platform, without elaborating.
South China Morning Post
7 hours ago
- South China Morning Post
Washington has already lost dirty chip war but does not know it yet
The United States is fighting two chip wars against China. One involves playing dirty, which it has already lost, though it doesn't know it yet. The other, more legitimate, remains to be seen. It depends on whether America can maintain its longstanding tech innovation and leadership. But with Donald Trump at the helm with his weird and often incomprehensible 'strategies' – from cuts and firings in government-funded basic research to direct interference in the tech sector – things don't look good. The dirty chip war essentially tries to trip China over with export restrictions, bullying of allies from selling advanced tech, and sanctioning of Chinese tech firms, which often includes targeting their non-Chinese suppliers as well. It was started by Donald Trump 1.0, intensified under Joe Biden, but now somewhat moderated under Trump 2.0. You can say China also has its own tit-for-tat dirty war, which involves smuggling and copying of export-restricted advanced chips and related tech such as automated software designs. But historically, rising tech superpowers, including Britain and the US, have always taken from others as a kind of state industrial policy. China's development is the rule, not the exception. Tech diffusion can be slowed but never stopped. At the moment, there is something of a truce, though Washington clearly sees it as a continuation of the tech war by other means. There seems to be a consensus within the Trump White House that putting the squeeze on China has actually made it move faster to refashion its entire chipmaking industry by creating an increasingly self-sufficient domestic sector with its own secure supply chains. That's why Trump and Co have switched to a different track, by allowing Nvidia and AMD to sell to China respectively their lower-performance chips H20 and MI308 for artificial intelligence.
