The presidents of China, Xi Jinping, and Russia, Vladimir Putin, say that the “friendship” between both nuclear powers goes beyond any possible clash of interest. “Our relationships have reached their historical maximum point, they are self -sufficient and do not depend on internal political factors or the current international situation,” said the Russian leader when India, Moscow’s partner, China’s ally. Both leaders with the celebration on May 9 of the Day of the Background. Chinese troops will participate in the military parade, although Xi Jinping has stressed that his society with Kremlin is still far from being a full alliance: “We need to strengthen mutual political trust and intensify strategic cooperation between China and Russia, and it is important to continue being reliable partners.”
The presidents have met at the Kremlin for about three and a half hours in a meeting divided into two phases, the last of them extended with several members of their respective governments. At the end of the XI and Putin meeting, they have signed a joint statement “about global strategic stability.”
The Kremlin awaits the presence of 29 leaders in the stands of the Red Square during the military parade this Friday. Putin wants to show the Russian people who are not isolated despite their invasion of Ukraine.
“In the midst of global technological changes, China and Russia have constantly strengthened their mutual political trust and strategic cooperation, and have maintained close coordination in international matters, playing a constructive role in a turbulent world,” said the Chinese leader.
Moscow has not offered many more details about the bilateral encounter between Putin and XI. One of the most interesting points was his possible mediation in the clash between India – member of the BRICS, such as Russia and China – and Pakistan. Moscow has supplied New Del Delhi a lot of Igla-S anti-aircraft missiles urgently, while the Chinese ambassador to Islamabad met with the Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zardari, to reiterate “the lasting friendship and proven by the time” between both nuclear powers against the great rival of Pekín in Asia, the India, the Indian, armed for decades for decades.
During his encounter with XI, Putin has appealed to the memory of World War II to fortify his relationship with Beijing. “Our peoples achieved a great feat and managed to restore peace and, as is known, they suffered the greatest losses. Now together they oppose attempts to falsify history and rehabilitate Nazism and militarism,” said the same Russian leader who today accuses the West of having taken a second front against the third Reich, but does not remember that the Soviet union did not declare the war to the Japanese empire to the Japanese empire to last days of the conflict.
Gas and oil
The commercial volume between the two powers reached “the record figure” of 245,000 million dollars (217,000 million euros) in 2024, according to Putin. “The locomotive of our ties is energy,” said the Russian leader, whose country has found in Beijing a against Western sanctions and the rejection of the European Union to its gas and oil.
However, the replacement of the European market with the Chinese progresses slowly for Moscow, which will be aware of the desired Power Power of Siberia II. Since the invasion of Ukraine began, Xi Jinping has been open to developing the project, but has never definitively confirmed it. “The two presidents have talked about the power of Siberia II and have instructed to accelerate their implementation, the Russian Vice Prime Minister Alexánder Novak said after the meeting.
The Russian President has stressed that both powers have reduced their dependence on the dollar in their transactions. “Almost all Russian-Chinese foreign operations are carried out in rubles and yuan,” said Putin.
Both governments have pledged to strengthen their collaboration in all imaginable areas. XI and Putin have signed “a joint action plan in the Cinematographic Industries of China and Russia, and their space agencies have sealed a memorandum for construction, one day, of a power plant on the moon.
