US Envoy Urges China to ‘Stop Telling Russia’s Lies’

Former ambassador to NATO Nicholas Burns gives his opening statement during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination to be the U.S. ambassador to China, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 20, 2021. Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

The U.S. ambassador to China on July 4 criticized the Chinese foreign ministry for spreading “Russian propaganda” and disinformation, denying Beijing’s assertion that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) instigated the Russia–Ukraine war.

Speaking at the World Peace Forum in Beijing, U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns called the Russian war against Ukraine “the greatest threat to global world order,” and alleged that China had “picked up” Russian disinformation.