Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has cautioned his US counterpart Antony Blinken against stepping on China's "red lines”, as the two country's top diplomats met in Beijing on Friday.
Mr Wang opened the meeting with a question which sounded more like a warning: "Should China and the United States keep to the right direction of moving forward with stability or return to a downward spiral?"
The China-US relationship is beginning to stabilise, but it is still being tested by "negative factors", he added.
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The North Atlantic Alliance bears direct responsibility for the Ukrainian crisis, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin told a news briefing.
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Wang added that China was not providing weapons to the conflicting parties and strictly controlled dual-use goods, including the export of drones.
He said that "more than 60% of the weapons components and dual-use items imported by Russia come from the United States and Western countries." He emphasized that Russia and China maintained normal and open trading and economic cooperation.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg earlier said that 90% of microelectronics imported by Russia in 2023 came from China and that China was allegedly providing Russia with satellite imagery.