Putin Stands By China

(Reuters) Aggressive U.S. tactics such as a campaign against Chinese telecoms firm Huawei will lead to trade wars - and possibly real wars - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday in a show of solidarity with China alongside its leader Xi Jinping. In some of his strongest words on the subject Putin accused Washington of unbridled economic egoism". He singled out U.S. efforts to thwart a Russian gas pipeline to Europe and a U.S. campaign to persuade countries to bar Huawei the worlds biggest telecoms equipment maker from supplying network gear. His broadside at an economic forum in St Petersburg on the same platform as Xi was a clear show of unity with China at a time when Beijing is locked in a trade war with Washington and Moscows own ties with the West are at a post-Cold War low.