{"id":1405603,"date":"2022-03-28T18:44:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T22:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405603"},"modified":"2022-03-28T18:44:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T22:44:57","slug":"russia-feels-duped-and-cornered-by-expanding-nato-says-sympathetic-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-feels-duped-and-cornered-by-expanding-nato-says-sympathetic-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Feels &#039;Duped&#039; and &#039;Cornered&#039; by Expanding NATO, Says Sympathetic China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-feels-duped-and-cornered-by-expanding-nato-says-sympathetic-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405603&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">BEIJING (AP) \u2013 China\u2019s ambassador to the U.S. says that of all parties concerned in the Ukraine, only China has Russia\u2019s ear.<\/p>\n<p>Qin Gang\u2019s comments to the Phoenix Television channel, which has close ties with China\u2019s ruling Communist Party, come as Beijing\u2019s tacit support for Moscow is receiving increasing scrutiny from Washington and others.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>China has refused to criticize Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, or even refer to it as such. It has also vigorously opposed punishing economic sanctions imposed on Moscow by the West.<\/p>\n<p>Qin said China was uniquely positioned to help peacefully resolve what he called \u201cthe crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng complained &#8220;NATO has kept strengthening and expanding, and intervened militarily in countries like Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan&#8221; since the end of the Cold War <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T7klJnHTuB\">https:\/\/t.co\/T7klJnHTuB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1505220051326095360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNow, all parties concerned are in serious confrontation with Russia except China. Only China has the ear of Russia,\u201d Qin told the channel\u2019s \u201cTalk With World Leaders\u201d program in an interview broadcast on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Qin blamed NATO\u2019s eastward expansion for having provoked Russia. \u201cRussia feels duped by NATO on its eastward expansion. It feels threatened and cornered,\u201d Qin said.<\/p>\n<p>While Beijing claims it is impartial in the conflict, Chinese state media has repeated false and unsupported claims made by Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix has itself received attention for embedding a reporter with Russian troops who has produced a steady stream of pro-Moscow reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cNever forget who\u2019s the real threat to the world,\u201d a Chinese government spokesman wrote amid the invasion of Ukraine, sharing an infographic sarcastically entitled \u201cUSA Bombing List: The Democracy World Tour\u201d listing military interventions <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7OCRyth6ry\">https:\/\/t.co\/7OCRyth6ry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1497958451766607880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2013 China\u2019s ambassador to the U.S. says that of all parties concerned in the Ukraine, only China has Russia\u2019s ear. 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