A top European Union lawmaker, Reinhard Butikofer, on
Tuesday said that China is helping the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Butikofer, who is the head of the European Parliament’s
delegation for relations with China, said the Asian giants have “given
political support to the Russian aggression against Ukraine.”
“The way in which China handles this conflict will have
bearing on the future overall of the EU/China relationship,” said Reinhard
Butikofer.
Speaking to journalists ahead of a high-level summit between
the EU and China on Friday, Butikofer said, “The veil is threadbare and it
fools no one.”
He added that he hoped that European leaders would “push
hard to make China understand that Europe expects them to refrain from further
supporting Russia.”
“I would say that we have to convincingly tell the Chinese
side that for us, this is not just a sideshow, this is not just an unnecessary
conflict that will be forgotten tomorrow,” the German politician said.
“This is a very fundamental conflict because it breaches the
principles on which the European security and stability order has been built
over the decades.”
When asked if he thought China was helping Russia evade
sanctions, he said, “China’s commercial banks have refrained from obviously
breaching the sanctions against Russia.
“I don’t think it’s possible to say yet how much China has
been helping Russia to overcome the sanctions,” he concluded.
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