Putin vows to consolidate China ties after Trump inauguration
Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to strengthen relations and develop strategic partnership with China.
Just hours after Donald Trump was sworn in on Monday as the 47th president of the United States, Putin held a meeting over a video call with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
Putin addressed Xi in video footage of the meeting released by the Kremlin as his “dear friend.”
"We build our ties on the basis of friendship, mutual trust and support, equality and mutual benefit. These connections are self-sufficient, independent of domestic political factors and the current global situation.”
The two leaders have met over 42 times and in their meeting they have developed a close personal bond, making repeated efforts in past years to build deeper and stronger ties in military and economic fields between the two major powers.
“I agree with you that cooperation between Moscow and Beijing is based on a broad commonality of national interests and a convergence of views on what relations between major powers should be,” Putin said to Xi.
Putin called for “new plans for developing the Russian-Chinese comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation”.
The two leaders' personal ties strengthened by their shared view of the West as their common enemy, seeing it as a decadent force facing imminent collapse, have helped boost relations between Moscow and Beijing.
Trump, who in his inaugural speech on Monday vowed to make America "greater, stronger and more exceptional than ever before", could definitely be on a collision course with the two due to their conflict of interests.
Washington views Beijing as its biggest economic competitor and Moscow as its biggest military rival.
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