Despite the Kremlin’s commitment to a military takeover of Ukraine’s Donbas region, China has remained unfazed by US threats to its increasing ties and greater cooperation with Russia. According to a top diplomat, Beijing stated on Wednesday that it will “maintain strengthening strategic ties with Russia.” This is despite the fact that Washington has stepped up its rhetoric in an attempt to highlight heinous war crimes allegedly committed in areas like Bucha and now Mariupol. While the Biden administration recently admitted that it “has not seen” China providing Russia with military equipment, as some previous administration officials had suspected, the accusation and suspicion have lingered over Beijing, which is still under Western pressure to come out definitively against the Russian invasion. “No matter how the international landscape may change, China will continue to strengthen strategic coordination with Russia for win-win cooperation, jointly safeguard the common interests of the two countries and promote the building of a new type of international relations and a community with a shared future for mankind,” Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said in a late Tuesday statement. Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng on Mon met with #Russian Ambassador Andrey Denisov, saying no matter how the intl situation changes, China will enhance strategic cooperation with Russia to promote a new model of intl relations and a community with ...
