The international situation is in the grip of chaos, but Beijing’s strategic partnership with Moscow is a force for stability amid the most significant changes seen in a century, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Xi and Putin in May promised a “new era” of partnership between the two most powerful rivals of the United States, which they portrayed as an aggressive Cold War hero spreading chaos around the world.
“At present, the world is going through changes unprecedented in a hundred years, the international situation is bound to chaos,” Xi told Putin in the Russian city of Kazan at the opening of the BRICS summit.
“But I firmly believe that the friendship between China and Russia will continue for generations and the responsibilities of great countries to their people will not change.”
Russia, waging a war against NATO-supplied Ukrainian forces, and China, under pressure from a concerted American effort to counter its growing military and economic power, are increasingly finding common geopolitical cause.
Russia and China are trying to portray the West as decadent and decadent, pushing back against the perceived indignities of the 1991 Soviet collapse and centuries of European colonial dominance over China.
The United States describes China as its biggest rival and Russia as its biggest nation-state threat, and President Joe Biden has said that democracies face challenges from autocratic governments like China and Russia.
Biden has called Xi a “dictator” and said Putin is a “killer” and even a “crazy SOB.” Beijing and Moscow have rebuked Biden for the comments.
Putin called Xi a “dear friend” and said the partnership with China is a force for stability in the world.
“Russian-Chinese cooperation in world affairs is one of the main stabilization factors on the world stage,” Putin said.
“We intend to further enhance coordination on all multilateral platforms to ensure global security and an equitable world order.”
Xi said cooperation in the BRICS grouping is “the most important platform for solidarity and cooperation between emerging market countries and developing countries in the world today.”
He said it is “a core force in promoting the achievement of equitable and orderly global multipolarity as well as inclusive and tolerant economic globalization.”
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