Moscow and Beijing have repeatedly celebrated their close ties in public. However, the alliance apparently does not carry as far as officials in Europe and the United States feared: China’s Defense Minister Wei Fenghe stressed over the weekend that his country had not provided any material support to Russia during the Ukraine war. The connection between the two states is a partnership, but not an alliance, he said at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.
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