NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has accused China of giving political backing to Russia as it attacks Ukraine, and warned Beijing against providing material support to Moscow’s war effort.
China has provided Russia with political support, including by spreading blatant lies and misinformation, and allies are concerned that China could provide material support for the Russian invasion, Stoltenberg said.
Nearly a month into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Chinese appear barely interested in the crisis. While the world has noticed Beijing’s absence from the negotiating table, that, experts say, is in line with Chinese thinking which is more concerned with issues closer to home.
While experts agree that the Chinese have different priorities, they also think Beijing may have known about the coming invasion. Chinese officials have recently said NATO should have been dissolved after the fall of the Soviet Union. Many in China feel the war as a plot instigated by the US to weaken Russia, strengthen Nato and make Europe more dependent on Washington again.