WASHINGTON – President Biden and his top officials vowed this week to introduce additional sanctions aimed at impeding Russia's war efforts against Ukraine. Biden, speaking in Kyiv on Monday, said the United States and its partners would announce new measures targeting sanctions evasion this week. The actions that the United States has taken against Russia in partnership with more than 30 countries constitute the broadest set of sanctions and export controls ever imposed against a major economy. Relations between the United States and China have soured in recent weeks after the flight of a Chinese surveillance balloon across the United States early this month. "And nearly 40% of the less advanced microchips Russia is receiving from China are defective."
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