New Delhi, July 5 -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly told the European Union's top diplomat on Wednesday that Beijing does not want to see Russian's loss in Ukraine because it feared the United States would then shift its whole focus to Beijing.

The statement contradicted Beijing's public position of neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Sources told the South China Morning Post that Wang rejected the allegation that China was supporting Russia's war effort, financially or militarily, insisting that if it was doing so, the conflict would have ended long ago.

China's Wang is said to have made the comments during a marathon four-hour debate on a wide range of geopolitical and commercial grievances with the EU's Kaja Kall...