China does not participate in or plot wars, says foreign miner | World News

Chinese Foreign Miner Wang Yi

China does not participate in wars or plot them, its foreign miner said on Saturday, after the United States urged allies to impose tariffs on Russian oil buyers, which include China.

The US has been urging countries buying Russian oil to stop doing as it tries secure and end to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Washington has imposed tariffs on India for purchasing Russian cargoes but has refrained from penalising China, which regards Russia as an “all-weather” strategic partner.
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War cannot solve problems, and sanctions only complicate them, Chinese Foreign Miner Wang Yi told a joint press conference with his Slovenian counterpart in Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana, according to a statement from his minry