During the talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, there was a clear signal that China considers bilateral relations with Ukraine outside the context of any ongoing processes: outside the context of their relations with Russia or the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.

“There was a very important part of the conversation devoted to the development of bilateral relations between Ukraine and China, in the economy and trade. And there was a very clear signal that China considers bilateral relations between Ukraine and China outside the context of any processes that are taking place. Outside the context of their relations with Russia, outside the context of our relations with the United States, or our relations, or the war that Russia unleashed against Ukraine,” he said in an interview with TSN.

According to Kuleba, this means that China has a clear understanding that relations with Ukraine, as an independent European country, will be a separate direction of China's foreign policy.

He also stressed that China will not stand on the side of the Russian Federation or Ukraine, and “China will only stand on the side of China.”

“Those who believe that China will stand on the side of Russia or on the side of Ukraine, they are deeply mistaken and look too superficially at China's strategic vision of the development of the situation in the world, not only in Ukraine,” the foreign minister said.

He added that in China, “they don't think like this: let's side with Russia here, side with Ukraine here.”

“They have always stood firmly for thousands of years and for thousands of years they will stand exclusively in the position of China's interests,” Kuleba said.

As reported, on July 23-25, Kuleba paid a visit to China at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.