UNITED NATIONS ¨C Russia accused the United States on Saturday of ¡°playing with fire¡± around Taiwan while China said it will press on working for ¡°peaceful reunification¡± with the democratically governed island and pledged to take forceful steps to oppose any external interference, a thinly veiled reference to Washington.
Tensions over Taiwan between Washington and Beijing have soared after a visit there in August by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which was followed by large-scale Chinese military drills as well as a pledge by U.S. President Joe Biden to defend the Chinese-claimed island.
Weeks before Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine in February, he and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping declared a ¡°no limits¡± partnership, inking a promise to collaborate more against the West.
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