Amid rising tensions with the US over Taiwan and South China Sea issues, China on Thursday backed Russian proposal for a trilateral tie-up among Washington, Moscow and Beijing to address global problems. "China, Russia and US are all major countries with worldwide influence and permanent members of the UN Security Council," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said, commenting on Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks that the three nations should increase trilateral cooperation. Moscow would like the US, China and Russia to build relations with each other, Lavrov was quoted as saying Russian state agency TASS. "The development of the trilateral relationship will not be targeted against any other part. It will be within frame work of major countries relationship featuring win-win cooperation," she added.

Source: dna January 26, 2017 15:12 UTC