China’s communist regime is tacitly supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and violating the spirit of the U.N. charter, according to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “First, there is the rhetorical support, or at least the absence of clear rhetorical denunciation by China of what Russia is doing,” Blinken said during a March 15 interview on CNN. “And this flies in the face of everything that China purports to stand for, including the basic principles of the U.N. Charter, including the basic principle of respect for sovereignty of nations.” “Second, we are concerned at the prospect of China providing material support to Russia or undermining the sanctions that we put in place with countries around the world, something that we’ve communicated directly to China, including just this in the past 24 hours when the National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, met with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi.” The comments followed seven …