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Mao Ning
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson
“The U.S. is the one who started the Ukraine crisis and the biggest factor fueling it…”
Read more...China keeps spreading Kremlin disinformation blaming NATO enlargement for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. -
Vladimir Putin
Russian president
"[A]fter the Second World War, Germany was, as you know, divided into four occupation zones: American, British, French, and Soviet. So, the Soviet Union legally ended the occupation, but the United States did not.”
Read more...The United States, United Kingdom and France ended their military occupation of West Germany on May 5, 1955. -
Mao Ning
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
“In accordance with [international law], China Coast Guard ships conduct patrol and management in waters under China’s jurisdiction to maintain maritime order and protect China’s legitimate and lawful rights and interests.”
Read more...China continues to unilaterally claim most of the South China Sea, while threatening its neighbors and disregarding international law. -
The Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry, via SANA
“…the report lacks scientific and objective evidence, and no sane person or specialist can reach such misleading conclusions.”
Read more...Despite years of denials and distortions from Syria and its ally, Russia, the chemical weapons watchdog offers overwhelming evidence Syrian government forces carried out the attack. -
Jun Wu Ji
Popular military blogger on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like messaging platform
“Ukraine formally proposed to Belarus a non-aggression pact while preparing for war near the Belarus-Ukraine border, seeming to repeat the scene where they deceived Russia with the Minsk Agreements.”
Read more...The Minsk Agreements were negotiated to stop Russia’s undeclared war in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, where Moscow-backed separatists fought Ukrainian government forces. -
Dmitry Medvedev
Deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, former Russian president and prime minister
“[A] nuclear power's defeat in a conventional war can provoke the outbreak of a nuclear war. The nuclear powers have not lost major conflicts on which their fate depends."
Read more...Nuclear powers have more than once been defeated in conventional wars that have affected their fate, and that has not led to a nuclear war. -
Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
“We do not interfere in the internal affairs [of other countries], while President Macron's statement clearly indicates that France regards such interference as possible and resorts to it.”
Read more...The Kremlin’s activities across Africa remain largely in the shadows, but Russia’s record of foreign interference is undeniable. -
Zabihullah Mujahid
Taliban spokesman
“The Ministry of Education assures its people and the international community that the Islamic Emirate considers education essential for every Afghan.”
Read more...In fact, the Taliban have indefinitely suspended higher education for female students.
