Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning commented at a regular briefing on 2 March on U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s recent remarks during a visit to Uzbekistan that "China cannot play both sides. It cannot pose as a publicly pro-peace force while it continues to fan the flames of the fire that Vladimir Putin ignited,” as well as allegedly “China is considering providing lethal military assistance to Russia for its aggression against Ukraine.”

Mao Ning said on the Ukraine issue, China’s position has all along been objective and fair. We are committed to promoting talks for peace and working for the political settlement of the crisis. We always stand on the side of peace and dialogue.

The US has been pouring lethal weapons into the battlefield in Ukraine, fanning up the flames and spreading disinformation. We are firmly against that, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said.

“The US keeps saying that territorial sovereignty must be respected, but on the Taiwan question, the US has been walking on the edge and pushing the envelope. The US has broken its own political commitments and been selling sophisticated weapons to China’s Taiwan region. The US says there’s desire for peace to prevail, yet it has waged wars and stoked confrontation around the world. The US says it’s important to respect and uphold the international order, yet it has slapped massive unilateral illegal sanctions and put its domestic laws above the international law. The US says competition must be fair, yet it has been cracking down on foreign companies by using all kinds of state apparatus and defying international trade rules,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning noted.

The US needs to reflect on itself, stop sowing confusion, stop trying to mislead the world and stop making presumptions about others based on the US’s own behavior. The US needs to step up to its responsibility, help deescalate tensions and promote dialogue and stop pointing fingers and discrediting other countries, Mao Ning said.