The Chinese government on Wednesday pushed back on a U.S. probe of whether China is helping its neighbor Russia dodge a U.S. ban on Russian uranium imports saying Beijing has always opposed "illegal unilateral sanctions".

The U.S. government is probing whether China is supporting Russia's nuclear industry by importing enriched uranium from its neighbor and exporting its own production to the U.S., which recently banned Russian uranium imports,

The United States has observed a sharp increase in enriched uranium imports from China since the end of 2023. US officials suspect that China helps Russia circumvent sanctions, according to Reuters. As Reuters reports,