The presidents of Russia and China reaffirmed the strategic alliance between the two states during a video conference held the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States.
The Presidents of Russia, Vladimir Putinand China, Xi Jinpingtoday reaffirmed the strategic alliance between the two states during a video conference held the following day inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States.
“I agree with you that the basis of cooperation between Moscow and Beijing is a broad community of national interests and a broad community confluence of points of view about what relations between the great powers should be,” Putin told his interlocutor, according to images broadcast by Russian television.
The head of the Kremlin has emphasized that “foreign policy relations and joint work between Russia and China are objective an important stabilizing role in international affairs”.
‘We may the ideology of fascism, nazism and militarism lift your head again. “It is important, together with other people who think like us, to carefully preserve and defend the historical truth,” he emphasized.
Xi, in turn, has emphasized that China is willing to further deepen relations with Russia. “In the New Year, we are preparing to take Sino-Russian relations with you to new heights,” the Chinese president said. He added that Beijing, together with Moscow, aims to “deal with external uncertainty on the basis of stability.”
Xi spoke to Trump by phone on the eve of the inauguration of the 47th US president, while Putin hopes to do the same in the coming days.
For his part, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrovdownplayed the importance this Tuesday Trump’s first decisions. “This indicates the methods President Trump and his administration will use to… American interests on the world stage,” he said during a press conference with his Armenian counterpart, Ararat Mirzoyan, in Moscow.
In this sense, the head of Russian diplomacy has pointed out that regardless of who occupies the White House, “nothing has ever changed” and that the only goal in Washington “is to always be stronger than any other competitor,” according to Russian news agencies. .
Source: EITB
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