Xi defends friendship between China and Russia amid pressure from the West

In a meeting during the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, that the international situation is dominated by chaos, but that Beijing’s strategic partnership with Moscow is a force of stability amid the most significant changes in a century.

“The international situation is undergoing serious changes and upheavals. However, this cannot shake my conviction that the two countries’ strategic choice in favor of firm mutual support, the centuries-old deep friendship between our countries and the sense of duty of China and Russia as great powers are inviolable,” he said. Xi Jinping.

Vladimir Putin, in turn, congratulated the 75th anniversary of the Communist Revolution in China and highlighted the bilateral relationship between the countries. He stated that Beijing and Moscow benefit from the “nonconformist” characteristic in relation to the global order.

“We can say with complete confidence that these relations have become a paradigm of how interstate relations should be built in the modern world. Our multifaceted cooperation is characterized by equality, mutual benefit and an absolutely non-conformist nature,” declared the Russian President.

In May, Xi and Putin promised a “new era” of partnership between the United States’ two most powerful rivals, which they cast as an aggressive Cold War hegemon sowing chaos around the world.

Russia, waging war against Ukrainian forces backed by the Western military alliance North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and China, under pressure from a unified US effort to combat its growing military and economic power, have increasingly found a common geopolitical cause.