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China’s foreign minister Wang Yi and Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday met in a Chinese on Wednesday, reaffirming bilateral ties and criticising economic sanctions imposed by the West against Moscow for invading Ukraine as “illegal” and “counter-productive”, official statements said. It is Lavrov’s first visit to China after Russia invaded its smaller neighbour Ukraine on February 24. Wang held talks with Lavrov in Tunxi city, in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui, where China is holding a two-day multilateral meeting on Afghanistan. Wang said Chinese and Russian relations had “withstood the test of international turbulence” and there was an...
