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“Australia looks to China – as a permanent UN Security Council member and ‘no limits’ partner of Russia – to use its substantial influence with Moscow to bring an end to the catastrophic suffering in Ukraine,” DFAT said. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken this week told China’s top diplomat Wang Yi there would be “serious consequences” if Beijing started providing weapons to Russia. The European Union declared it a “red line”, although China has denied it was planning to support Russia with lethal and instead blamed the US for “pouring weapons into the battlefield”. As the world marked the...
