Russia-China ties are the most important stabilizing factor on the international stage, Vladimir Putin said on Thursday (8\/5\/2025) after a three-hour meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn the context of the difficult geopolitical situation and global uncertainty, the Russian-Chinese foreign policy bond is the most important stabilizing factor on the international stage,\u201d Putin said. He stressed that contacts between Moscow and Beijing do not depend on the international situation or the situation within the two states. Relations between Russia and China have reached the highest level in history, the Russian president continued. Cooperation between the two states will continue to develop for the benefit of the peoples of China and Russia, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to him, Moscow and Beijing are connected by a common heroic past. Our common heroic past, fighting brotherhood constitute a reliable basis for the development and strengthening of Russian-Chinese relations. And this relationship has reached the highest level in history, he emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cooperation on the international stage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Russia and China in their foreign policy stand for a democratic and multipolar world order, our approaches in this area allow for this or are very close to it,\u201d the Russian president noted. \u201cRussia and China share the view that the UN, its Security Council, should continue to play a central role in world affairs,\u201d he added. \u201cAll issues and problems of the global and regional agenda should be resolved on the basis of the UN Charter, international law, with the obligatory consideration of the interests of all participants in the world community and respect for their cultural and cultural diversity,\u201d he added. \u201cPractically, all Russian-Chinese foreign trade transactions are conducted in rubles and yuan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That is, in fact, a stable system of mutual trade has been built, which is reliably protected from the influence of third countries and negative trends in world markets,” he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mutual Investment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Russian president announced the conclusion of agreements on the promotion and mutual protection of investments between the two countries. \u201cToday we have signed updated intergovernmental agreements on the promotion and mutual protection of investments, which, I am sure, will have a positive impact on the formation of a more favorable business environment and will give a serious impetus to the development of our economic cooperation,\u201d Putin said. Russia has become the world\u2019s leading importer of Chinese cars, Putin said, adding that Moscow is also ready to expand the range of Russian agricultural products in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor our part, we intend to continue creating favorable conditions for the activities of companies from China in Russia,\u201d he added. In addition, Putin said that Russia and China intend to further modernize transport infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Protection of Historical Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An agreement was also signed to protect the memory of the victory over German Nazism and Japanese militarism, as well as to combat attempts to revive them. \u201cThe main final agreement will be a joint statement at the highest level, the central theme of which is the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory and the living connection of the eras, and in the context of countering attempts to revive Nazism and militarism, reviewing the results of the Second World War,\u201d the Russian leader said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Russian-Chinese relations, sealed by the heroic past, have reached the highest level in history, the countries jointly oppose attempts to restore Nazism and militarism, the Russian president said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Russia and China \u201cstrongly supported the preservation of the historical truth about the Great Victory as a common value for humanity while jointly opposing attempts to falsify history and restore Nazism and militarism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHaving gone through unprecedented difficulties, having experienced all the horrors of war, our peoples achieved a great feat and managed to restore peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As you know, they suffered the greatest losses.\u201d \u201cOur common heroic past, fighting brotherhood constitute a reliable basis for the development and strengthening of Russian-Chinese relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And this relationship has reached the highest level in history. They are self-sufficient and do not depend on domestic political factors or the current world situation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Xi Jinping: We must strengthen strategic cooperation with Russia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For his part, Xi Jinping pointed out the need to strengthen China-Russia strategic cooperation, noting that the people of the two countries stood by each other to defend peace and justice during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Russia and China should steadily strengthen their strategic cooperation and promote equal multipolarity,” stressed Xi Jinping, who earlier pointed out that “under our strategic leadership, our political interaction is being strengthened, practical cooperation is being intensified, and cultural, humanitarian and inter-regional ties are gaining momentum,” the Chinese president stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Today, facing the negative trend of unilateral actions and violent dictatorship in the world, China is ready to jointly shoulder with Russia the special responsibility as major world powers and permanent members of the UN Council, with a sense of duty, to boldly defend the truth about the history of World War II,” the Chinese president emphasized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russia-China ties are the most important stabilizing factor on the international stage, Vladimir Putin said on Thursday (8\/5\/2025) after a three-hour meeting with his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[836,3],"tags":[151,161,4421,2618,237,58,396,70,184,2187,236],"class_list":["post-24198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-geopolitical","category-geopolitical","tag-brics","tag-china","tag-multipolar-world","tag-putin","tag-ruble","tag-russia","tag-un","tag-usa","tag-west","tag-xi-jinping","tag-yuan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24200,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24198\/revisions\/24200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}