(MENAFN) China has criticized the United States for its “banditry” in Syria, stating that Washington’s years-long army takeover and the “plundering” of Syrian resources have put the nation on the edge of a “humanitarian disaster.”
Informing journalists throughout a meeting on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin was requested to remark on latest reports in Syrian media that US troops had sent a large quantity of “looted oil” from Syria to Iraq earlier in January.
“We are struck by the blatancy and egregiousness of the US’s plundering of Syria… Such banditry is aggravating the energy crisis and humanitarian disaster in Syria,” he added, citing Syrian government figures claiming that “over 80 percent of Syria’s daily oil output was smuggled out of the country by US occupation troops” in the first half of 2022.
“Whether the US gives or takes, it plunges other countries into turmoil and disaster, and the US gets to reap the benefits for its hegemony and other interests,” he also said. “This is the result of the US’s so-called “rules-based order.””
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