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China’s new foreign minister has accused the US of shifting blame for the Ukraine war on to China, in an apparent pushback against warnings from Washington that China is considering supplying weapons to Russia. Speaking on Tuesday morning, at the launch of a Chinese government paper on its global security initiative, Qin Gang said China was “deeply concerned” about the war in Ukraine escalating and possibly “spiralling out of control”. Beijing signed a no-limits partnership with Moscow just weeks before the invasion of Ukraine one year ago. Since then, it has refused to condemn the invasion and some senior Chinese...
