Zhao Lijian asked back to foreign media for six consecutive questions: The Americans have the ability to expand NATO eastward, so why don't they send troops to support Ukraine?

　　China News Service, Beijing, March 18 (Zhang Su, Xie Yanbing) Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian hosted a regular press conference on March 18.

　　A reporter asked: US President Biden asserted that the Russian military committed war crimes by deliberately attacking civilians in Ukraine.

US Secretary of State Blinken reiterated this view yesterday.

You just mentioned that China is aware of the destruction and civilian casualties in Ukraine.

Is China concerned that these casualties were caused by the Russian army?

Could it be possible, if possible, to avoid discussing possible civilian casualties from U.S. actions in past conflicts?

Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.

Photography: Xue Wei

　　Zhao Lijian: I have answered the question of civilians many times these days.

Of course, China regrets the casualties of civilians.

　　I don't know what it means that you keep wrestling with this issue.

I also want to use your question here to ask you a rhetorical question.

You are a reporter for AFP. As a major European media and a major news agency, I think you, as journalists, should also reflect on yourself.

As the initiator of the Ukrainian crisis, why do Americans keep smearing China instead of reflecting on the European security dilemma caused by the blind eastward expansion of NATO?

Why hasn't the US side listened to the call of those experts, including Kissinger, that "Ukraine should not be an outpost in the confrontation between the East and the West"?

Why doesn't the United States reflect on its hypocritical behavior of watching from the sidelines after fanning the flames in Ukraine?

Haven't you Europeans thought about it?

Americans have the ability to expand NATO eastwards, why don't they send troops to support the Ukrainian people?

Haven't you forgotten?

The United States was the first to send civilians and embassy personnel from Ukraine.

Have you ever thought that the United States will not kill a soldier for Ukraine?

As a European media, have you ever reflected on why Europe has become a battlefield?

Will it become an arena for the game of great powers?

Why did Ukraine become a pawn and a victim of the great power game?

As journalists from major European news agencies, should you also ask the US side?

　　The last thing the US should do is to throw dirty water on a non-party like China.

Such despicable actions of the United States just exposed the guilty conscience of the United States as a thief, the misfortune of misfortune and their true intention to take advantage of the Ukraine crisis.

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