China Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 3rd. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian posted on Twitter with a map of NATO expansion to the East, hinting at the alliance's tendency to break promises. 
Message of the Deputy Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China posted on May 3 2022 on the social network, Zhao Lijian has repeatedly commented on the statements and actions of Washington with the help of cartoons. At the end of 2021, Russia published draft agreements with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further eastward expansion of NATO, joining the Ukrainian bloc, and establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. The proposals also contain a clause on the non-deployment of NATO strike weapons near the borders of Russia and the withdrawal of alliance forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. On February 24, Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.
