Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat that Beijing can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine as this could allow the United States to turn its full attention to China,

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is said to have made the comments during a marathon four-hour debate on a wide range of geopolitical and commercial grievances with the EU’s Kaja Kallas.

China cannot afford for Russia to lose the war in Ukraine, Beijing’s foreign minister has said, in unguarded comments to European officials.