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Responding to Chinese ‘joke’, Russia says US is ‘invisible hand’ in Ukraine

Responding to Chinese ‘joke’, Russia says US is ‘invisible hand’ in Ukraine

RUSSIA said that the United States was driving the war in Ukraine, saying China's foreign minister was joking when he said an "invisible hand" was to blame. In effusive comments on China's stature in world affairs, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also said Moscow was paying close attention to a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine that Beijing published last month. He was speaking after Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said the Ukraine crisis seemed to be driven by an invisible hand, pushing to extend and escalate the conflict and using it "to serve certain geopolitical agendas". "Here we can probably disagree with…
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Africa should not be arena for international competition, says Chinese foreign minister

Africa should not be arena for international competition, says Chinese foreign minister

DAWIT ENDESHAW AFRICA should not be an arena for competition between world powers, China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Wednesday, opening a new headquarters for a pan-African health body at the start of a five-country Africa tour. Qin visited facilities of the African Union in Addis Ababa, including the new headquarters of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. China financed the complex's construction, as it previously did for the headquarters of the AU itself, also based in the Ethiopian capital. China has been Africa's largest trading partner for over a decade. It competes for influence with the…
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