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Sarah Shamim

Why are NATO and China facing off over Ukraine?

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a press conference, during NATO's 75th anniversary summit, in Washington, US. [Nathan Howard/Reuters]

Leaders of NATO nations have described China as a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war on Ukraine in the sharpest criticism levelled yet by the alliance at Beijing over the conflict.

While NATO members and China have traded barbs before, this statement – part of a communique issued on Wednesday by the alliance during its 75th anniversary summit in Washington, DC – the alliance had earlier refrained from such explicit allegations against Beijing on the Ukraine war.

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