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China says it won’t seek to benefit from war in Ukraine

BERLIN, May 10 (Net) — China’s foreign minister said Tuesday that his country has no intention of benefiting from the war in Ukraine and hopes for further discussions on a peace plan Beijing proposed earlier this year.
Speaking after a meeting with his German counterpart in Berlin, Foreign Minister Qin Gang noted the recent talks the government in Beijing had with both Moscow and Kyiv, and said China’s special envoy for Europe was expected to visit Ukraine again soon.
“We won’t pour oil on the fire” of the war, Qin said, according to an official interpreter.
Western countries have accused Beijing of providing political and material support to Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The European Union is currently considering imposing sanctions against companies that supply critical components to Russia’s arms industry.
Qin denied Chinese firms were doing so. He said China maintains “normal” trade relations with Russia, not mentioning a significant bump in China’s purchases of Russian crude oil at a major discount.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock urged China to use its clout to find a peaceful solution to the conflict but suggested that Beijing wasn’t doing enough yet.
“As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, China can play a significant role in ending the war, if it decides to do so,” she told reporters in Berlin.
Baerbock welcomed recent statements by the Chinese government confirming the sovereignty of coun-tries that once made up the Soviet Union, adding that the position must hold for Ukraine, too.
The German government is currently in the process of adjusting its policy toward China, with some in the three-party coalition government pushing for a tougher line toward Beijing.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a speech to the European Parliament on Tuesday that he favors a “de-risking” rather than a “decoupling” of Germany’s economy from China.
The distinction did not satisfy Qin, who suggested the German government’s eventually policy could hurt trade between the two countries.
“Normal economic exchange should not be politicized,” he said.
Qin downplayed the recent cancellation of a meeting between China and Germany’s finance ministers, saying the visit was postponed for “technical” reasons and should not be over-interpreted.
A fellow member of German Finance Minister Christian Lindner’s Free Democratic Party, Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger, visited Taiwan in March, prompting criticism from Beijing, which considers the island part of its territory.
Lindner said Tuesday that Germany should have less of a soft touch approach in its dealings with China.
“We won’t allow our liberal values to be bought in return for good business,” he told German news site The Pioneer.

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