Chinese’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi said on Tuesday that China and Russia are friends forever and never enemies.
Wang stated this during a visit to Moscow in which he also welcomed signs of normalising ties between Washington and Moscow.
The principle of ‘friends forever, never enemies’ serves as a solid legal basis for advancing strategic cooperation at a higher level,” Wang said.
News360 Info reports that Wang is on a three-day visit to Moscow for strategic cooperation talks, a trip overshadowed by uncertainty around talks to secure a ceasefire in Ukraine and US President Donald Trump’s criticism of the Russian and Ukrainian leaders.
China and Russia declared a no limits strategic partnership days before Russian President Vladimir Putin sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
It was gathered that Chinese President Xi Jinping has met Putin over 40 times in the past decade and the two leaders have since agreed to deepen ties and cooperate on issues such as Taiwan, Ukraine and mutual rival the United States.
The Kremlin said on Monday that Putin would receive Wang, who will also hold talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
According to Wang, current global conditions obliged big powers to act as stabilising factors, so it was encouraging that Russia and the United States had moved to improve relations.
On Monday, the Kremlin said that Russia and the United States were working on ideas for a possible peace settlement in Ukraine and on building bilateral ties.
Trump, since taking office in January, has shifted the US to a more conciliatory stance towards Russia.
This is good for stabilizing the balance of power between major powers and inspires optimism in a disappointing international situation,” Wang said.
He also debunked the notion that Trump was trying to support Russia to set it against China, condemning such ideas as a relapse of obsolete confrontational and bloc thinking.
