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Beijing — China's Western envoy criticized Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Monday, and the U.S. ambassador refused to condemn Moscow's attack in a rare public forum in which China spread Russia's "promotion" He said it shouldn't.
At the World Peace Forum hosted by Tsinghua University, US Ambassador Nicholas Burns called Russia's war against Ukraine "the greatest threat to world order."
Mr Burns said he hoped a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry would stop repeating the "Russian propaganda" that blames NATO for the war.
"I want Foreign Ministry spokesmen to stop lying about the American Institute for Biological Weapons, which does not exist in Ukraine," he said.
Burns was adjacent to the British and French ambassadors on his left, an adviser to the Chinese government and a Russian ambassador to his right. The forum organizer requested a session as a discussion among five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a "special operation" to disarm Ukraine and protect it from fascists. Ukraine and the West have stated that the fascist claims are groundless and that war is an unprovoked aggression.
While the session was on a wide range of topics in the United Nations and the World Order, all three Western ambassadors were accused of illegal attacks on Ukraine, a feature rejected by Russian ambassador Andrey Denisov. He criticized Russia for what was called.
British Ambassador Caroline Wilson told an audience of foreign diplomats, Chinese students and scholars, "If Russia is on its way, it will be global. It will be anarchy. "
French ambassador Laurent Billi said the war violated all founding principles of the international order.
The Western ambassador also reserved some of the criticisms of China. Both Wilson and Billi rejected China's claim that Europe's arms aid to Ukraine was prolonging the war.
The US and Western allies have also criticized Russia for spreading propaganda, disinformation, and "nonsense", claiming that some of its biological weapons are made in Ukraine.
The United Nations said it was unaware of the biological weapons program in Ukraine.
(reported by Yew Lun Tian, edited by Robert Birsel)
