Moscow underscores necessity of Sino-Russian strategic interaction in face of ‘Washington’s destructive actions’
Russia and China acknowledge the urgent necessity of bilateral strategic interactions in the current conditions, Russian foreign ministry official has said, stressing on resistance against “Washington’s destructive actions.”
In an interview with Russia's TASS news agency on Tuesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said the policy pursued by the United States and its allies to contain the development of Russia and China made the Sino-Russian strategic link an obvious necessity.
"The substantial growth of the conflict potential in the world, the latest policy by the United States and its allies aimed at derailing the global security system and their focus on containing the development of our countries have made obvious the need for Russia and our Chinese partners to comprehensively bolster the strategic link between Moscow and Beijing capable of both resisting Washington’s destructive actions and mobilizing the international community’s constructive forces for developing new open and just international relations," the senior Russian diplomat stressed.
Citing Moscow and Beijing’s approaches as “identical”, Rudenko also noted that major bilateral cooperation on such a track has been carried out in the format of a trustworthy political dialog between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
"The closer foreign policy coordination between Russia and China based on identical or similar approaches to key world problems, has a stabilizing effect on the entire system of international relations and serves as a catalyst in its gradual transition to a multi-polar world, namely, to a more balanced and stable form of inter-state interaction," the Russian deputy foreign minister further stressed.
Washington has become more vigilant about relations between Beijing and Moscow, since Xi and Putin, in a joint statement in February last year, said that there were “no limits to Sino-Russian cooperation … no forbidden zones."
Since the war began in Ukraine on February 24 last year, the administration of US President Joe Biden has sent heavy weaponry to Ukraine and shared intelligence with the government in Kiev, despite warnings from Moscow that the unfaltering Western support would indefinitely prolong the war.
As part of their cooperation, Russia and China have carried out several military drills in recent years, including naval exercises in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea. Back in 2021, Russian troops were deployed to Chinese territory for maneuvers for the first time.
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