Beijing : President Xi Jinping called on Russia to help strengthen their countries’ ties in multilateral groupings, as both nations seek to counter a US-led world order within which they are increasingly isolated.
Xi told the prime minister, “China is willing to work with Russia to firmly support each other on issues of core interests and strengthen cooperation in multilateral areas.” Mikhail Mishustin In Beijing on Wednesday, state broadcaster China Central Television reported.
Chinese leader named United Nationssecurity-oriented Shanghai Cooperation OrganizationAccording to the report, the Group of 20, along with the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are where Beijing and Moscow can cooperate better.
The Russian leader echoed Xi’s sentiments, saying: “Russia stands ready to work with China to promote the process of multi-polarization and strengthen the international law-based global order.”
A multipolar world is emerging that includes rival factions divided largely by their attitudes toward the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine and Beijing’s territorial claims on Taiwan and controversial economic practices. Those divisions were on display at the Group of Seven summit last weekend, in which the leaders convened China and Russia in a joint communiqué.
Xi is trying to move global affairs away from Western blocs to create a world where China can expand its interests without the threat of economic or military pressure from the US. Earlier this month, he personally hosted the China-Central Asia summit, which gathered leaders of the five former Soviet nations, as the G7 played out in Japan.
Mishustin’s inaugural visit to China as prime minister comes at a time when Xi has sent a special envoy to Ukraine and several European countries. The trips together are a symbol of how Beijing is trying to portray Xi as a global peacemaker while balancing ties with Moscow that have drawn criticism from the West.
Earlier in the day, the Russian leader, who has been sanctioned by the US and several of its allies, told Chinese Premier Li Keqiang that relations between the two Russia and China were at an “unprecedented high”.
“They are characterized by mutual respect for each other’s interests, willingness to jointly respond to challenges, which are associated with growing turbulence in the international arena and the pressure of illegitimate sanctions from the collective West,” he said.
Russia is facing economic hurdles from a US-led sanctions campaign designed to punish the Kremlin for its full-scale invasion of neighboring countries. China has refrained from getting involved in that campaign, and bilateral trade has boomed since the war. China’s exports to Russia reached a record high in April, rising 153% from a year earlier to $9.6 billion.
Mishustin told a business forum in Shanghai on Tuesday that bilateral trade has helped Russia reduce “reliance on the dollar”, according to Russian news agency Interfax.
Beijing is also grappling with US sanctions of its own, as President Joe Biden seeks to block the world’s No. 2 economy from accessing advanced chips. China showed its limited ability to retaliate this week by targeting imports from Micron Technology Inc., a memory chip company that is relatively easy for China to replace.
Xi told the prime minister, “China is willing to work with Russia to firmly support each other on issues of core interests and strengthen cooperation in multilateral areas.” Mikhail Mishustin In Beijing on Wednesday, state broadcaster China Central Television reported.
Chinese leader named United Nationssecurity-oriented Shanghai Cooperation OrganizationAccording to the report, the Group of 20, along with the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are where Beijing and Moscow can cooperate better.
The Russian leader echoed Xi’s sentiments, saying: “Russia stands ready to work with China to promote the process of multi-polarization and strengthen the international law-based global order.”
A multipolar world is emerging that includes rival factions divided largely by their attitudes toward the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine and Beijing’s territorial claims on Taiwan and controversial economic practices. Those divisions were on display at the Group of Seven summit last weekend, in which the leaders convened China and Russia in a joint communiqué.
Xi is trying to move global affairs away from Western blocs to create a world where China can expand its interests without the threat of economic or military pressure from the US. Earlier this month, he personally hosted the China-Central Asia summit, which gathered leaders of the five former Soviet nations, as the G7 played out in Japan.
Mishustin’s inaugural visit to China as prime minister comes at a time when Xi has sent a special envoy to Ukraine and several European countries. The trips together are a symbol of how Beijing is trying to portray Xi as a global peacemaker while balancing ties with Moscow that have drawn criticism from the West.
Earlier in the day, the Russian leader, who has been sanctioned by the US and several of its allies, told Chinese Premier Li Keqiang that relations between the two Russia and China were at an “unprecedented high”.
“They are characterized by mutual respect for each other’s interests, willingness to jointly respond to challenges, which are associated with growing turbulence in the international arena and the pressure of illegitimate sanctions from the collective West,” he said.
Russia is facing economic hurdles from a US-led sanctions campaign designed to punish the Kremlin for its full-scale invasion of neighboring countries. China has refrained from getting involved in that campaign, and bilateral trade has boomed since the war. China’s exports to Russia reached a record high in April, rising 153% from a year earlier to $9.6 billion.
Mishustin told a business forum in Shanghai on Tuesday that bilateral trade has helped Russia reduce “reliance on the dollar”, according to Russian news agency Interfax.
Beijing is also grappling with US sanctions of its own, as President Joe Biden seeks to block the world’s No. 2 economy from accessing advanced chips. China showed its limited ability to retaliate this week by targeting imports from Micron Technology Inc., a memory chip company that is relatively easy for China to replace.