The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, held a meeting in the Kremlin on Tuesday in which they delved into their long -term cooperation relations and denied the theory that the links between Moscow and Beijing are directed “against third parties.”
“Cooperation between Russia and China is never directed against third parties and is not subject to external interference (…) Our friendship is not opportunistic, but long term,” said the representative of Chinese diplomacy, according to statements collected by the Russian News Agency Tass.
Wang, who also met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, stressed that the good relations between the two countries are largely due, thanks to Putin and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, who oriented Chinese-ruse ties “towards safe progress in a context of great changes never seen.”
Putin and XI established “new important tasks to further deepen comprehensive strategic cooperation between the two countries” and, under their leadership bilateral cooperation “will undoubtedly demonstrate a new vitality and will reach new levels,” Wang highlighted.
For his part, President Putin transferred to the Chinese envoy his satisfaction with the channel of relations. While Lavrov took the opportunity to value the relevance of Beijing and Moscow also as a “most important stabilizer factor in these times” at the international level.
In this sense, Wang said that both Russia and China “will not stay with a crossed arms in the development of bilateral relations”, since both countries have “broader perspectives.” Looking back, the Chinese representative appealed to the exemplified cooperation during World War II.
Wang also stressed that Putin’s future visits to Beijing, and Xi’s to Moscow will serve “an impulse to the development of bilateral relations.” Given this, Lavrov affected the relevant of the good harmony between both leaders to boost contacts between Russia and China towards “an unprecedented level.”
