Russia-China partnership has limits

25/3/2023 7:01

        China's partnership with
        Russia has limits, despite rhetoric to the contrary, and Europe
        should welcome any attempts by Beijing to distance itself from
        Moscow's war in Ukraine, European Union foreign policy chief
        Josep Borrell said on Friday.
        
        Borrell's remarks followed a summit this week between
        Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi
        Jinping. The two leaders declared a "no limits" partnership in
        February 2022, just days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
        
        But Borrell said that while China had forged close economic
        and diplomatic ties with Russia, it had not formed a military
        alliance with Moscow and had not supplied arms to help Russia
        with its war in Ukraine.
        
        "This unlimited friendship seems to have some limits,"
        Borrell told reporters in Brussels.
        
        "China has not crossed any red lines for us."