Borrell: Arming Russia and Ukraine has a 'big difference'
Borrell: Arming Russia and Ukraine has a 'big difference'
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USA: According to Josep Borrell, who spoke to reporters, the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi questioned why the EU's top diplomat was so concerned about Beijing possibly providing Russia with weapons when Brussels is supplying Ukraine with weapons.

Wang and Borrell spoke last week at the Munich Security Conference, and the latter warned on Monday that the EU would consider any Chinese assistance to the Russian military to cross a "red line."

Borrell revealed that he and Wang had a "frank conversation" in Munich while speaking to reporters on Tuesday at a NATO summit.

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Wang made it clear during this conversation that "China doesn't provide arms to countries at war" and had no intention of doing so with Russia. This, according to Borrell's memory of Wang, "is the principle of China's foreign policy."

But according to Borrell, Wang questioned him, "Why do you show concern for me possibly providing arms for Russia when you are providing arms for Ukraine?"

In response, Borrell claimed that he clarified the "big difference" between these two possibilities and highlighted "what is at stake for us Europeans in the war in Ukraine." But he withheld his explanation from the media.

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Senior Western diplomats other than Borrell have warned Beijing about its alleged military support for Russia. Last week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken asserted that Washington was already aware of China's non-lethal support for Moscow and that Beijing would face "serious consequences" if such support turned into the use of lethal force.

Similar to how Wang responded to Borrell, China's foreign ministry called on the US to "seriously reflect" on its part in inflaming the conflict in Ukraine in response to Blinken. The US, not China, has been flooding the world with money.

China has urged a peaceful resolution to the conflict on numerous occasions, and it intends to present a peace proposal soon. Since the start of Russia's military operation in Ukraine last February, Beijing and Moscow have increased their bilateral trade, and both nations are currently participating in trilateral naval exercises with South Africa.

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Wang met with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev on Tuesday in the Russian capital in advance of a potential trip to Moscow by Chinese President Xi Jinping this spring. Wang declared after the meeting that Sino-Russian relations are "rock solid and will withstand any test of the changing international situation."

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