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Chinese President Xi Jinping told Russia’s Vladimir Putin that the international situation is in chaos, but that Beijing’s strategic partnership with Moscow is a force for stability amid the most significant changes seen in a century.
Xi and Putin in May promised a “new era” of partnership between the two most powerful rivals of the United States, which they portray as an aggressive Cold War hegemon wreaking havoc around the world.
“Currently, the world is going through changes not seen for a hundred years, the international situation is intertwined with 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 last for generations, and the responsibility of great countries to their peoples will not change.
Russia, waging war against NATO-supplied Ukrainian forces, and China, under pressure from a concerted US effort to counter growing military and economic power, are increasingly finding common geopolitical cause.
Russia and China, pushing back against the perceived humiliations of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and centuries of European colonial rule over China, have sought to portray the West as decadent and in decline.
The United States has identified China as its biggest competitor and Russia as its biggest nation-state threat, and President Joe Biden has said democracies face a challenge from autocracies like China and Russia.
Biden called Xi a “dictator” and said Putin was a “murderer” and even a “crazy man.” Beijing and Moscow chastised 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 stabilizing factors on the world stage,” Putin said.
“We intend to further improve coordination across all multilateral platforms to ensure global security and a just world order.”
Xi said cooperation in the BRICS group is “the most important platform for solidarity and cooperation between emerging market and developing countries in the world today.”
He said it was “a major force in promoting the realization of an equal and orderly global multipolarity as well as an inclusive and tolerant economic globalization.”
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