China Ambassador Says Sino/Russia Relations 'Best In History'

The Chinese Ambassador to Russia, Zhang Hanhui has given an interview with Russian state news agency Tass calling the US the, "main instigator," of the Ukraine crisis and commending relations between Moscow and Beijing as having entered, "the best period in history, charactarised by the highest degree of mutual trust, the highest degree of interaction, and the greatest strategic importance."

• The interview is likely to cause further concern in the west that the diplomatic crisis between China and the west, which was initiated by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA), Congressional delegation to Taiwan might have broader implications for US-led efforts to prevent China from providing material assistance to the Russian war effort.
• In the interview, Zhang drew explicit parallels between Ukraine and Taiwan, saying that the US has applied the same Cold War tactics to Ukraine and Taiwan in order to, "contain China and Russia, and provoke major power rivalry and confrontation."