BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping returned to Beijing on Wednesday evening after wrapping up a state visit to Russia, as experts said the two joint statements signed by China and Russia this time show that the strategic partnership remains rock solid and will keep benefiting not only the two peoples on all fronts, but also keep promoting world peace and the improvement of global governance.
On the Ukraine crisis, China and Russia reached some significant consensuses including agreeing that the purposes and principles of the UN Charter must be observed and international law must be respected. Analysts said the consensuses between the two countries set up a foundation to start a potential peace process, and China will keep engaging with other key members of the international community and parties concerned to further discuss the mediation.
China-Russia relations go far beyond the bilateral scope and are crucial to the world and the future of mankind, Xi said at a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. Experts said a solid strategic partnership between the two major powers brings certainty to the world and could reinforce and rebuild the power balance between major countries that has been seriously damaged by the US in recent years, which is significant for world peace in general.
Every meeting between the top leaders of the two countries “is a catalyst that can accelerate cooperation,” Andrey Kortunov, director-general of the Russian International Affairs Council, told the Global Times on Wednesday. It is a powerful signal to state bureaucrats, diplomats, the private sector, civil society institutions and other important sectors that they should speed up their interactions and bring their cooperation to a new level, Kortunov said.
Li Haidong, a professor at the Institute of International Relations at the China Foreign Affairs University, told the Global Times on Wednesday that Xi’s visit shows that apart from guiding the development of bilateral ties, China is also taking on the responsibility of a major country to coordinate with another major country on an issue of global concern. The key for the purposes and principles of the UN Charter to be observed effectively is that major powers can coordinate with each other and solve their problems via coordination, and at present, no other major country like China can fulfill this duty, Li noted.
–The Daily Mail-Global Times news exchange item
