China rejects Nato's claim that it is enabling Russia's Ukraine war
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🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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China has fiercely rejected accusations from Nato - whose leaders are meeting in Washington - that it's helping maintain Russia's war in Ukraine. The military alliance said Beijing had become Russia's "decisive enabler", with its "large-scale support for Russia’s defence industrial base". Beijing urged nations to reflect on the "root causes" of the war.
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(Picture:75th NATO Summit in Washington DC, USA - 11 Jul 2024 Credit: Alessandro di Meo/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newshour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from |
| 0:08.2 | London I'm Nula McGovern. Well strong language from NATO in a statement delivered in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:14.4 | It called Beijing a decisive enabler of Russia's war in Ukraine. |
| 0:19.4 | The military alliance of NATO is marking its 75th anniversary now with 32 members across Europe and North America. |
| 0:27.1 | And Ukraine is one of the countries that is hoping to join in the future. |
| 0:31.2 | But that is something that Russia opposes and has caused heightened tension |
| 0:35.1 | between the warring countries. |
| 0:37.1 | In response to the NATO statement, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, |
| 0:41.3 | Ling Jan, said Beijing's role in providing military assistance |
| 0:45.1 | to Russia had been hyped up. |
| 0:50.6 | The declaration of the NATO summit exaggerated the tension in the Asia Pacific region. |
| 0:56.0 | It was full of cold war mentality and belligerent rhetoric, |
| 1:00.0 | and the content related to China was full of bias, smears and provocations. |
| 1:05.8 | We strongly deplore and resolutely oppose this. |
| 1:09.5 | The BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner is with me now. Welcome back to Newshour. |
| 1:15.0 | Can you run us through, Frank, the recent relationship between Russia and China. |
| 1:20.0 | I think I was reading somewhere more than 40 visits over the past few years. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, it's getting much closer because the two countries, although they are to some extent rivals and at one point I mean there was even a risk of |
| 1:34.6 | conflict between Russia and China on their border in eastern Russia that's all in the |
| 1:39.9 | past today they share a common view that they want to essentially depose the US leadership |
| 1:48.8 | of the world in terms of what's known as the international rules-based order that has existed since |
| 1:56.4 | 1945. |
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