MOSCOW, May 16 (Reuters) - The United States and other

countries are trying to pressure China to restrict its

cooperation with Russia but Beijing is strong enough to resist,

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.

"There are attempts by the United States and other countries

to put pressure on China quite brazenly in order to limit its

manoeuvre in cooperation with Russia," Peskov told Izvestia.

"But the Chinese are strong enough to resist this."