UNITED NATIONS: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States of playing with fire around Taiwan on Saturday, September 24 in a speech critical of Washington at the annual gathering of the United Nations.
Lavrov said in an address to the UN General Assembly that the United States was now trying to subjugate Asian areas, criticising Washington's formation of closed-format country groupings in the Indo-Pacific.
They are playing with fire around Taiwan. They're promising military support to Taiwan, Lavrov said.
After a visit to the US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi in August, tensions between Washington and Beijing over Taiwan have soared, followed by large-scale Chinese military drills and a pledge by US President Joe Biden to defend the democratically governed island.
Putin said last week that we intend to firmly adhere to the principle of 'One China'. We condemn the actions of the United States and their satellites in the Taiwan Strait. Lavrov accused Washington of trying to turn the entire world into its own backyard through sanctions. It's an attempt to impose it, or a pure, unadulterated dictatorship. The United States and its Western allies have imposed a barrage of sanctions on Moscow after it invaded Ukraine in February.