The Chinese government on Thursday insisted its massive oil imports from Russia are “legitimate and lawful” and threatened “countermeasures to firmly defend its sovereignty” if President Donald Trump pressures Beijing to stop buying Russian oil.
China was responding to President Trump’s claim on Wednesday that he has persuaded Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to put a “big stop” on India’s prodigious purchases of Russian oil “within a short period of time.”
“Now I’ve got to get China to do the same thing,” Trump mused to reporters in the Oval Office.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian angrily rejected Trump’s overture at a press…
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