CHINA-UKRAINE/US: XINHUA EDITORIAL DISMISSES NEW YORK TMES REPORT THAT U.S. BRIEFED CHINA ON RUSSIA'S PLANS TO ATTACK UKRAINE
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The South China Morning Post (March 9) quoted an editorial published by Xinhua on March
9 which accused the US government of feeding “slanderous news” to the media and denied
reports that Beijing had direct knowledge of Russia’s plans to invade Ukraine. It called the
report published last week in The New York Times a “downright lie” adding that “Shifting
blame to China, misleading the world and transferring accountability away from the crisis
culprit, this is a malicious intention”. The Xinhua editorial said “The US government routinely
feeds information to targeted media like The New York Times in the name of an intelligence
organisation in order to spin public opinion to its own advantage. “Media like The New York
Times then play along in a double act by spreading rumours with lies to maximise
Washington’s interests. All of this is to cover up the fact that the US was the ultimate culprit
in the Ukraine crisis”.
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