• Wang Wenbin used the opportunity to remind reporters that it was the United States.
• Several foreign leaders are concerned that China would transfer armaments to Russia.
• Wang also claimed Xi’s visit was a “trip for friendship, cooperation and peace”.

More from China‘s foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin.

Wang was asked about accusations that Russia deployed Chinese weaponry in Ukraine during a news briefing held while Xi Jinping was on his way to Moscow.

He used the opportunity to remind reporters that it was the United States, not China, that was supplying weaponry to Ukrainian battlefields. “The US side should stop fuelling the fires and fanning the flames… and play a constructive role for a political solution to the crisis in Ukraine, not the other way around,” he said.

Several foreign leaders are concerned that China would transfer armaments to Russia after the two countries committed to a “no boundaries” alliance soon before the Ukrainian crisis began.

China has rejected any plans to deliver arms and has criticised the West for supplying weaponry to Ukraine.

Wang also claimed Xi’s visit was a “trip for friendship, cooperation and peace”.

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