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The Russian president and his host, Chinese President Xi Jinping, are visiting Harbin, a city in north-east China once known as “Little Moscow” because of its historically large Russian population and Russian Orthodox-style architecture.
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The itinerary highlights the close relationship between the two leaders and countries, who on Thursday pledged to deepen their military ties.
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Enhanced economic cooperation will also be on the agenda. Russian state media has reported that Russia’s sovereign wealth fund will open an office in Harbin, and on Friday there will be a ceremony to mark the start of the China-Russia Expo, a trade fair.
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At a press conference held shortly after Thursday’s meeting, and before the two leaders were seated for a celebratory concert commemorating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of formal relations between China and Russia, Putin praised his “warm and like-minded” talks with Xi.
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In response, President Xi said that the friendship between China and Russia is “eternal” and “has become a model for a new type of international relations.”
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Here is the full report from the first day of the visit.
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important events
The Russian leader’s two-day visit to China came at the request of his country’s military. launched an offensive About 8,000 people were forced to flee their homes in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region last week in the largest border incursion since the invasion began in earnest.
“This is President Putin’s first visit since taking office, and it is aimed at showing that Sino-Russian relations have risen to a new level,” Konstantin Karachev, an independent Russian political analyst, told AFP. Told. “Not to mention the visible and sincere personal friendship between the two leaders.”
China has strengthened its trade and military ties with Russia in recent years as the United States and its allies have imposed sanctions on both countries, particularly Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
Western countries say China played a key role in helping Russia withstand sanctions and provided key technology that Russia used on the battlefield in Ukraine. China claims to be neutral in the conflict, but despite President Vladimir Putin’s declaration that he wants to restore century-old borders with Russia as the reason for the attack, Russia has It supports Moscow’s claim that it was provoked into attacking Ukraine.
China, once Moscow’s junior partner in the world communist hierarchy, remains Russia’s most powerful friend in the world.
Telegram footage showed President Putin arriving in Harbin and being greeted by Chinese officials at the airport.
Relations between Russia and China set a “model of peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation between great powers” and “contribute to peace, stability and prosperity in the region and the world,” China’s state government said. Global Times The paper said in an editorial Friday.
The report praised the relationship as “unique in the history of modern international relations” and added:
The two countries do not represent a military-political alliance, but rather a new model of great power relations characterized by non-alignment, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third countries.
The two countries also “jointly oppose zero-sum games and the Cold War mentality, group politics, rival blocs, division of the world based on ideology and political system, confrontational policies, and interference in other countries’ internal affairs.”
However, China is under increasing pressure from the West not to supply Russia with materials that could be used in the war against Ukraine.
Bilateral trade reached a record $240.1 billion last year, and there are signs that more goods, including dual-use technology that could be used in the war effort, are reaching Russia from China via third countries. .
Even without direct arms shipments to Russia, China’s economic and political support for Russia has been a lifeline since February 2022, Western observers say. On Thursday, President Putin said he was “grateful” to China’s efforts to resolve the “Ukraine crisis.” .
Opening overview
Hello. Welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China.
The Russian president and his host, Chinese President Xi Jinping, are visiting Harbin, a northeastern Chinese city once known as “Little Moscow” because of its historically large Russian population and Russian Orthodox-style architecture.
The itinerary highlights the close ties between the two leaders and countries, who pledged on Thursday to deepen military ties.
Strengthening economic cooperation will also be on the agenda. Russian state media reported that a Russian sovereign wealth fund has opened an office in Harbin and that an opening ceremony for the China-Russia Expo will be held on Friday.
At a press conference held shortly after Thursday’s meeting, and before the two leaders were seated for a celebratory concert commemorating the 75th anniversary of formal relations between China and Russia, Putin praised his “warm and like-minded” talks with Xi.
In response, President Xi said that the friendship between China and Russia is “eternal” and “has become a model for a new type of international relations.”
Here is the full report from the first day of the visit.
