Yes. China really plays according to the Russian textbook. When people are doubting whether there's an alliance between China and Russia, they should just look at the facts. China is actually implementing the same strategies, except that it's not energy dependency; it's full-scale dependency. Even when we are doing the grain deal, which we are right to do in the European Union, where we have a lot of subventions, these are direct subventions to the Chinese production apparatus, because who is building our solar panels, for instance?
On April 21st, 2023. See this statement in context.