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US prepared to ‘stand up’ to Moscow, says secretary of State

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. is prepared to “stand up” to Russia over a host of threatening actions and called on China to allow international inspectors to probe the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, in his first television interview that aired on Monday.

Blinken touched on key foreign policy concerns in an interview with Andrea Mitchell of NBC News, in particular the Biden administration’s aim to extend a key nuclear arms treaty with Moscow while also addressing Russia’s role in actions threatening U.S. security.

“We have to be able to do two things at the same time,” Blinken said, referring to the U.S. pursuit of a five-year extension on the New START nuclear arms treaty while also weighing actions to respond to a number of alleged actions that Russia committed against the U.S.

This includes the SolarWinds hack, reported Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, election interference and the poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexie Navalny, which the U.S. has blamed on the Russian internal security services.

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