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Yahoo News
Beijing said Wednesday it will provide war-torn Ukraine with about $790,000 in humanitarian aid, with the first shipment already on its way, though China has yet to condemn Russia's invasion of the country.
China has repeatedly blamed NATO's "eastward expansion" for worsening tensions between Russia and Ukraine, echoing the Kremlin's prime security grievance while refusing to criticise Moscow's decision to send troops across the border.
But a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping told his French and German counterparts China was "deeply grieved" by the outbreak of war in Europe, the first shipments of aid to the country of 44 million had been sent, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.
"At the request of the Ukrainian side, the Red Cross Society of China will provide a batch of humanitarian aid... including food and daily necessities, worth five million yuan ($792,000)," ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters.
https://news.yahoo.com/china-ukraine-790-000-aid-121534049.html
spooky3
(34,476 posts)jimfields33
(15,954 posts)HUAJIAO
(2,397 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,502 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)Better than nothing.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,791 posts)While we are sending hundreds of millions.
Eastward expansion , China? They should look at their long history of expansion and oppression. China is a huge glass house of hypocrisy also.
bif
(22,747 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,399 posts)At the Olympics they went for the lovable look in their opening and closing ceremonies. Now Xi is going for the sympathetic look.
The only feeling Xi has right now is angst that the plan he cooked up with Putin is not going well.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Imo, this is a cynical gesture. Nobodys fooled
Irish_Dem
(47,399 posts)I know the small amount of a donation says it all.