Wu Sike, China's Middle East Envoy, talks during his news conference at the Chinese Embassy in Amman May 29, 2013. REUTERS/Mjed Jaber
BEIJING (Reuters) - The West is to blame for the refugee crisis confronting Europe after it interfered in the affairs of Middle Eastern countries to try and push its own values, such as democracy, but only caused chaos, a former senior Chinese diplomat has said.
A bitterly divided European Union is battling to cope with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Its biggest economy, Germany, expects between 800,000 and a million asylum seekers to arrive this year, far more than any other nation in the bloc.
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