{"id":235512,"date":"2025-07-03T19:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/235512\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T19:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:29:11","slug":"exclusive-china-tells-eu-it-cannot-afford-russian-loss-in-ukraine-war-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/235512\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | China tells EU it cannot afford Russian loss in Ukraine war, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union\u2019s top diplomat on Wednesday that Beijing cannot afford a Russian loss in Ukraine because it fears the United States would then shift its whole focus to Beijing, according to several people familiar with the exchange.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The comment, to the EU\u2019s Kaja Kallas, would confirm what many in Brussels believe to be Beijing\u2019s position but jar with China\u2019s public utterances. The foreign minstry regularly says China is \u201cnot a party\u201d to the war. Some EU officials involved were surprised by the frankness of Wang\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wang is said to have rejected, however, the accusation that China was materially supporting Russia\u2019s war effort, financially or militarily, insisting that if it was doing so, the conflict would have ended long ago.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">During a marathon four-hour debate on a wide range of geopolitical and commercial grievances, Wang was said to have given Kallas \u2013 the former Estonian prime minister who only late last year took up her role as the bloc\u2019s de facto foreign affairs chief \u2013 several \u201chistory lessons and lectures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A soldier of Ukraine\u2019s 30th Separate Mechanised Brigade prepares to fires a rocket launcher toward Russian positions at the front line in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Thursday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1bc67ac0-ace0-4918-9a25-51bcc3bad6b3_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"A soldier of Ukraine\u2019s 30th Separate Mechanised Brigade prepares to fires a rocket launcher toward Russian positions at the front line in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Thursday. Photo: AP\"\/>A soldier of Ukraine\u2019s 30th Separate Mechanised Brigade prepares to fires a rocket launcher toward Russian positions at the front line in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Thursday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some EU officials felt he was giving her a lesson in realpolitik, part of which focused on Beijing\u2019s belief that Washington will soon turn its full attention eastward, two officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union\u2019s top diplomat on Wednesday that Beijing cannot afford a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[30417,11783,3801,2574,11330,1395,83585,32,2000,299,5187,55706,92047,1699,1824,29135,2596,10546,2301,1411,8723,22381,332,657,49,6709],"class_list":{"0":"post-235512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-anhui-province","9":"tag-antonio-costa","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-berlin","12":"tag-brussels","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-chinese-foreign-minister-wang-yi","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen","20":"tag-european-council-president","21":"tag-european-union","22":"tag-germany","23":"tag-johann-wadephul","24":"tag-kaja-kallas","25":"tag-kyiv","26":"tag-moscow","27":"tag-paris","28":"tag-pentagon","29":"tag-politico","30":"tag-russia","31":"tag-ukraine","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114790961380495961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}