A top Chinese diplomat told his European counterpart that his country needs Russia to keep fighting in Ukraine to distract the United States from focusing on Beijing, Hong Kong’s paper of record reported last week.
According to a Friday report in the South China Morning Post, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remarks on Wednesday in a conversation with Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top diplomat.
The remarks, the SCMP noted, “confirm what many in Brussels believe to be Beijing’s position but jar with China’s public utterances.
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“The foreign ministry regularly says China is ‘not a party’ to the war. Some EU officials involved were surprised by the frankness of Wang’s remarks.”
However, the diplomat said that Beijing was not materially supporting the Russian war
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