Fox News China highlighted its ‘mutually beneficial cooperative relationship’ with Russia
China has accused the United States of “playing up” the crisis on Ukraine’s border after Moscow claimed to have pulled back some of its 150,000 troops amassed in the region.
“Such persistent hyping up and disinformation by some Western countries will create turbulence and uncertainty to the world full of challenges and intensify distress and division,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters on Wednesday.
“We hope relevant parties will stop such disinformation campaigns and do more to benefit peace, mutual trust and cooperation,” he added.
Wang also highlighted China and Russia’s “long term good neighbourliness and mutually beneficial cooperative relationship.”
Russia amassed nearly 150,000 troops along its southwest border and deployed troops into allied Belarus. Russia continues to claim that it has no intention of invading neighboring Ukraine, but Western intelligence remains concerned it could launch an attack in the immediate future.
On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry released a video showing a trainload of armored vehicles moving across a bridge away from Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. A day earlier, the ministry reported the start of a pullback of troops following military exercises near Ukraine…READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… | Fox News
