China on Tuesday accused the US of exploiting the Ukraine crisis for its own “geopolitical goals”.

“What the US cares about is not Ukraine, but to realize its geopolitical and strategic goal via the Ukraine crisis,” said Wang Wenbin, spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, Turkey’s Anadolu reported. 

Wang was responding to comments made by US spy chief William Burns during a Senate hearing.

“If we're seen to be walking away from support for Ukraine, not only is that going to feed doubts amongst our allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific, it's going to stoke the ambitions of the Chinese leadership in contingencies ranging from Taiwan to the South China Sea,” Burns told senators on Monday.