He Russian President Vladimir PutinIn an article published in the official Chinese newspaper ‘People’s Daily’, he thanked “China’s balanced approach to the Ukrainian ‘question'” and expressed his satisfaction with Beijing’s willingness to “play a constructive role”. Putin’s words appear on the same day that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinpinghave reached Moscow for one three day visit in which the two leaders will talk, among other things, about their tensions with the Westespecially with the United States, and the conflict in Ukraine.
The peace initiative that China presented a few weeks ago has not satisfied either side or the West, but it has placed Xi in a role of mediatora role that it also played successfully between two apparently irreconcilable countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The Russian president indicated that the visit of Xi, whom he calls his “old friend”, is “significant” and “exemplifies the nature of relations between Moscow and Beijing”, which he describes as “based on mutual trust and respect for the sovereignty and interests of the other part”. “The ties between both nations have reached the highest level in their history,” he said. Putin in the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.
“A fairer world order”
Russia y China “constantly advocate a fairer multipolar world order,” said the Russian leader, adding that the two countries “collaborate shoulder to shoulder in international affairs, like rocks in troubled waters” and “effectively coordinate” their foreign policies, “facing to common threats and contemporary challenges”.
Despite indicating that Russia Still contemplating “a political-diplomatic solution” to the war in Ukraine, Putin lamented “the ultimatums” to Moscow that “show that someone lives with his back to reality.” Likewise, the Russian president criticized the “Western provocations” in Ukraine, the “attempts by NATO to expand its activities in the Asia-Pacific region” and the “attempts by the United States to contain any country that does not submit to its dictated”.
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The meeting between the Russian and Chinese leaders It takes place after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Putin last Friday for the illegal deportation of minors from the territory occupied by Russian troops in Ukraine, which the court considers a war crime.
He chinese governmentwho has shown his opposition at sanctions contra Moscowissued a statement in February on what it calls “conflict” in which it defends the abandonment of the “cold war mentality” and a ceasefire, as well as a call for “restraint” to “prevent the situation from getting out of control ” or a nuclear conflict, a proposal criticized by the West for putting “the aggressor and the victimized” on the same level.