China’s cooperation with Europe ‘unlimited’ as with Russia – Chinese envoy

In an interview released on Monday, China’s EU envoy reassured Ukraine’s neutrality by saying that China’s collaboration with Europe and other nations is “endless” and that its connections with Russia are “unlimited.”

The Paper interviewed Chinese ambassador to the EU Fu Cong at an unknown time.

However, China’s ambassador to France questioned the sovereignty of former Soviet Union states like Ukraine in a Friday French television interview.

EU diplomats have criticized China for refusing to name Russia’s war on Ukraine an invasion or demand for its withdrawal, stressing that Beijing and Moscow established a “no limits” alliance just days before Russian forces invaded Ukraine.

“The European side should correctly understand the reference to ‘no upper limit’,” Fu told the publication. “Friendship and cooperation among countries are endless and should not be artificially limited. Sino-Russian cooperation is “unlimited”, and the same is true for China and Europe.”

Fu warned against “attempts” to utilize Sino-Russian relations to foment animosity between China and Europe, rejecting suggestions that China had “prior knowledge” of the Ukraine conflict or has been supplying weaponry.

Last month, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned it would be “extremely difficult” for the EU to trust China if China doesn’t help find a political solution based on Russia’s exit from Ukraine.

And earlier this month, Borrell said: “Neutrality in the face of the violation of international law is not credible.”

Europe has also criticized China’s naval and air force drills in the Taiwan Strait and around democratic Taiwan, which China claims.

On Sunday, in an opinion piece in French newspaper Le Journal Du Dimanche, Borrell called on European navies to patrol the Taiwan Strait.