China Attacks and Insults U.S. on Twitter

Un top China spokesperson is condemned “U.S. greed” and said the country’s actions plunge “other countries into turmoil and disaster” During a Tuesday press conference according to A transcript.

The remark from Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin was then amplified on the ministry’s official Twitter account.

“The level of US greed in stealing resources from Syria is as striking as its ‘generosity’ in giving out military aid. Whether the US gives or takes, it plunges other countries into turmoil & disaster, and the US gets to reap the benefits for its hegemony and other interests,” The tweet read:

Wang was responding to a Syrian state-news report report U.S. troops drove “looted oil” In a convoy comprising 53 tankers, the convoy traveled from the Syrian countryside into Iraqi military bases last weekend. SANA, the Syrian state news agency has reported similar stories many times over recent years. Chinese officials have also spoken out about it before.

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Wang claimed that China is “struck by the blatancy and egregiousness of the U.S.’ plundering of Syria,” The U.S. smuggled more than 80 per cent of Syria’s daily oil production in the first half 2012, according to data.

“Such banditry is aggravating the energy crisis and humanitarian disaster in Syria,” Wang continued. “The US must answer for its oil theft. … We urge the US to stop trampling on international rule of law and breaking international rules.

The U.S. intervened in Syria’s ongoing civil war in 2014 to contain the spread of the Islamic State (ISIS). The militant Islamist group was largely defeated around 2019, but there are still about 900 U.S. troops deployed in Syria “to keep an ISIS resurgence at bay,” A military spokesperson told Last month, the Washington Post.

The UN estimates Syria has seen more than 350,000 deaths since 2011, when the war began. The conflict is described as “unleashing”. “unprecedented devastation and displacement” Check out the country.

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