Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian has said that the key to resolving the crisis is in the hands of Washington and NATO
“The US government’s decision to expand NATO eastward is directly linked to the current Ukrainian crisis”, – the diplomat said.
He said that over the past decades, many international experts had stressed that further expansion of NATO against Russia would be a fatal mistake in US policy, but “unfortunately, the US government ignored this and continued to push NATO expansion eastwards.”
“The key to resolving the Ukrainian crisis is in the hands of the United States and NATO. We hope that the United States and NATO, being the instigators of the crisis, will have a good rethink of their role in the Ukrainian crisis, take due responsibility and take practical actions to defuse the situation and resolve the problem”, – he pointed out.
He said China also hoped that the US would work with most of the developing world and stand on the side of peace and justice to help de-escalate the situation in Ukraine as soon as possible.