{"id":3905,"date":"2022-02-24T21:49:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2022-02-24T21:57:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:57:51","slug":"china-blames-us-for-russian-attack-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/world\/china-blames-us-for-russian-attack-on-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"China Blames US for Russian Attack on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201c<em>If someone keeps pouring oil on the flames while accusing others of not doing their best to put out the fire, such kind of behavior is clearly irresponsible and immoral<\/em>,\u201d Hua said. China objects to \u201c<em>any action that hypes up war<\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Beijing, Feb 24 (AsiaFreePress):&nbsp;<\/strong>China has blamed the US for creating the tensions which led to Thursday&#8217;s Russian attack on Ukraine. Beijing further called on the international community to avoid \u201c<em>stoking panic<\/em>\u201d over the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a press briefing, China\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the key question was the role played by the Americans, whom she branded \u201c<em>the [main] culprit of current tensions.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>If someone keeps pouring oil on the flames while accusing others of not doing their best to put out the fire, such kind of behavior is clearly irresponsible and immoral<\/em>,\u201d Hua said. China objects to \u201c<em>any action that hypes up war<\/em>,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chunying accused the US of hypocrisy, asking whether Washington had respected the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq and Afghanistan, where she said it had \u201c<em>wantonly killed innocent people<\/em>.\u201d She called on the US to \u201ctake these questions seriously and abandon double standards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Describing the unfolding events as \u201c<em>complex<\/em>,\u201d the spokeswoman confirmed that Beijing was not providing military support to Russia, and said China was not \u201c<em>jumping to any conclusions<\/em>\u201d over the situation.<br>She called on all sides to \u201c<em>work for peace instead of increasing tensions<\/em>\u201d or \u201c<em>stoking panic<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a military attack on Ukraine on Thursday, which he said was aimed at demilitarizing and \u201c<em>denazifying<\/em>\u201d the country. He accused the West of flooding Ukraine with advanced weaponry and ramping up the NATO presence in the country, arguing that the Russian \u201c<em>special operation<\/em>\u201d was necessary to protect the Donetsk and Lugansk People\u2019s Republics, which Moscow has recognized as sovereign states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia\u2019s military action has prompted an international outcry and threats of new, large-scale sanctions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Thursday that Kiev had cut diplomatic ties with Moscow.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf someone keeps pouring oil on the flames while accusing others of not doing their best to put out the fire, such kind of behavior is clearly irresponsible and immoral,\u201d Hua said. China objects to \u201cany action that hypes up war.\u201d Beijing, Feb 24 (AsiaFreePress):&nbsp;China has blamed the US for creating the tensions which led [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,396,73,6],"tags":[964,192,511,1026,2316,848,199,1516,74],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-latest","category-security","category-world","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-hua-chunying","tag-kremlin","tag-mfa-china","tag-moscow","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-conflict","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}