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China and Russia warn U.S. it is threatening global stability and violating international relations.
Beijing called on the United States on Friday to withdraw sanctions it imposed on a Chinese military organisation for buying Russian weapons or "bear the consequences".
"The Chinese side expresses strong indignation over the above-mentioned unreasonable practices of the US side," foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a regular press briefing.
Geng said Beijing had lodged an official protest with the United States.
"The US actions have seriously violated the basic principles of international relations and seriously damaged the relations between the two countries and the two militaries,"
Geng said."We strongly urge the US to immediately correct their mistake and withdraw their so-called sanctions, otherwise the US will have to bear the consequences."
The US State Department said Thursday it was placing financial sanctions on the Equipment Development Department of the Chinese Ministry of Defence, and its top administrator, for the recent purchase of Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets and S-400 surface-to-air missiles.
Officials said it was the first time a third country has been punished under the CAATSA sanctions legislation for dealing with Russia, and signalled the Trump administration's will to risk relations with other countries in its campaign against Moscow.
The move comes as the United States and China are in the heat of a trade war.
The two countries will launch new tariffs on Monday, with Washington targeting $200 billion in Chinese exports and Beijing hitting $60 billion worth of American products.
The two sides have already imposed tariffs on $50 billion in goods from each country.
Russia warns US it is 'playing with fire' with sanctions
Moscow said Friday Washington's latest raft of anti-Russian sanctions that also target China undermined global stability, warning the United States against "playing with fire."
"It would be good for them to remember there is such a concept as global stability which they are thoughtlessly undermining by whipping up tensions in Russian-American ties," deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said in a statement.
"Playing with fire is silly, it can become dangerous," he added.
"We recommend that Washington's operators of the sanctions machine at least superficially acquaint themselves with our history to stop going round in circles."
The State Department also announced Thursday it was placing 33 Russian intelligence and military-linked actors on its sanctions blacklist.
All of them -- defence related firms, officers of the GRU military intelligence agency, and people associated with the Saint Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency disinformation group -- have been on previous US sanctions lists and 28 of them have already been indicted by Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russia election meddling.
Ryabkov reiterated that none of the rounds of sanctions had managed to force Russia to change its course so far.
"The numerous American 'black lists' increasingly repeat each other. It is funny but it is so," he said.
"It appears that it has become a sort of national pastime there," Ryabkov said, adding that the latest round of anti-Russian measures was the 60th since 2011.
Source: i24news.tv
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