Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China for four days from August 31 to September 3.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is about to visit China this weekend to spend four consecutive days in the Kyoto region, the first time he has been so long in a country outside Russia in 25 years.
Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on August 27 that Putin's visit to China was "unprecedented."
"This visit will be included in the upcoming activities of our Chinese friends," Peskov explained, referring to an event in Beijing on Sept. 3 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japan and the World Anti-Fascist War, which Putin will be invited to attend.
Ten years ago, Putin came to Beijing to participate in the 2015 event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese people's war against Japan and the world war against fascism.
Peskov said Russian-Chinese relations are a priority for Moscow and that exchanges at the highest level, as well as international exchanges during this visit, have always been extremely important for us.
Screenshots of relevant reports in Russian media
On August 29th, Russian Presidential Assistant Ushakov told reporters that Putin would discuss relations with the United States during the talks in Beijing and make an assessment of the current situation in Ukraine.
Ushakov said that Putin promised that he would brief the Chinese side in detail on the results of the meeting with US President Trump in Alaska on August 15th, as well as other contacts with US representatives, including telephone calls.
That's right.The greatest foundation of China-Russia strategic partnership is to jointly cope with pressure and restraint from the U.S.-led Western groups.
However, in February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine, putting the Sino-Russian strategic partnership to a huge test. This four-year high-intensity and consuming war not only dragged Russia into the quagmire of war, but also made the eastern powers that continued to maintain strategic partnership with Russia pay a huge price.
Especially after Trump's "pro-Russian" administration took office in the United States in January this year,The US’s political stance on compromise with Russia and its attraction to Russia is clearly revealed.The former China-Russia-US triangle relationship is no longer stable.。
This year is the first year of the Trump administration, and the United States' strategic project to win over and contain Russia will continue for at least the next three and a half years.
August 15, US-Russia Alaska Summit
In the face of major strategic interest adjustments, before the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Putin attended the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics and signed the so-called "on-the-top" strategic partnership with the Chinese side, must be re-examined and timely follow up adjustments.
In the maintenance of China-Russia relations, the Chinese side is actually in a state of continuous damage to interests, which must be adjusted.。
In the face of the Russian reality,The next step in China-Russia relations must be led by China.Otherwise, China's international status and national interests will be controlled by the United States and Russia, and even put under joint pressure from the United States and Russia.
In the Soviet Russian political tradition, there has never been a "big brother spirit" for friends, but only a "major style" for strategic partners or allies to shed their own blood.
On August 30, Xinhua News Agency broadcast a long interview with Putin (written), titled "Remembering the Common History and Joining Hands to Achieve the Prosperity of Russia and China - Interview with Russian President Putin".
In this exclusive interview, Putin pointed out that the Soviet Union and the Chinese people bore the brunt and suffered the heaviest and largest number of casualties in the war. "Russia will never forget that it was China's heroic resistance that was one of the decisive factors in preventing Japan from attacking the Soviet Union and stabbing us in the back in 1941-42. Those were very difficult years for us." Putin said. "This allowed the Soviet Red Army to concentrate its efforts on defeating Nazi Germany and liberating Europe."
He also pointed out that when Japan disbelieved in provoking armed conflict against China, the Soviet Union extended a hand of help to the Chinese people.Soviet pilots also fought side by side with Chinese warriors, heroically fighting the aggressors.
Putin was right that China’s battlefield captured the absolute main force of the Japanese army, suffered enormous sacrifices, and prevented Japan’s northern invasion (offensive to the Soviet Union).
However, Putin did not say that in the difficult moments of the Chinese people's war against Japan, the Soviets reconciled with the Japanese militarist group in 1941 (the Soviet Union and Japan signed a non-aggression treaty on April 13, 1941), the Soviet Union recognized the False Manchuria, Japan recognized the independence of foreign Mongolia, and the Chinese "bite a knife" behind the back.
On August 30, the Xinhua news agency broadcasted a screenshot of Putin's written interview.
In this exclusive interview, Putin said that Russia is grateful to China for carefully preserving the memorial facilities of Soviet Red Army soldiers who sacrificed their lives in battle.
But Putin did not say that on the more than one million square kilometers of land that the Shah and the Soviet Union had taken from the armed forces of China,The traces of Chinese life in Vladivostok, Bree, Hailanpao, Shuangchengzi, Temple Street, etc. have been cleaned up so cleanly that it seems that the Chinese have never been there。
Today, Russians can pay homage to and commemorate their martyrs and sages in places such as Changchun and Harbin in northeast China. Can Chinese people still pay homage to their ancestors in Vladivostok, Boli and Hailanpao?
But more importantly, remember the bloody lessons of history, so that today’s China-Russia relations and future China-Russia relations are more fair and fair, more in line with the UN Charter and international rules of passage, and more in line with China’s interests.Avoid China from becoming a party whose interests are damaged in the development of Sino-Russian relations and the game。
In this exclusive interview, Putin pointed out when talking about bilateral economic and trade cooperation that Russia-China economic relations have reached an unprecedented high level. Since 2021, trade volume has increased by approximately US $100 billion. In terms of bilateral trade scale, China is undoubtedly Russia's largest trading partner. Among China's trading partners, Russia ranked fifth last year. Settlements between the two countries have almost completely shifted to local currencies.
Putin said that Russia is steadily at the forefront of oil and gas exports to China; the two sides continue to work to reduce mutual trade barriers, the Russian exports of pork and beef to China have been achieved in recent years, food and agricultural products have become one of the main categories of goods exported by Russia to China.
What Putin said was the truth. He mentioned that after 2021, he quietly avoided "after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022",Under the collective sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States, Europe and the Western bloc, China, under tremendous international pressure, greatly increased its imports of Russian oil and natural gas and opened its market to Russia-making Russian pork, beef, food and agricultural products exports to China. main categories of goods。
Meanwhile, China’s oil and gas imports from the United States dropped to almost zero, and significantly reduced U.S. meat and agricultural imports.
It is well known that the United States is not only the world's first energy power, but also the world's first agricultural product exporter.
What these mean, and especially what the war means to Putin, should be clear to the Russians.
In summary, whether in the wartime, post-war period, or now, China is a true strategic partner of Russia, and has made great contributions to Russia and China-Russia relations.
In particular, China has sacrificed its own interests and firmly safeguarded the overall friendship and stability of Sino-Russian relations at the expense of China's interests.
But today,The time has come for China-Russia relations to be adjusted and the time has come for China to dominate China-Russia relations.。
This is based on two clear facts: First,The United States and Russia have formed a strategic cooperative relationship。 China can't count on Russia's verbal promise and still insists that the strategic cooperation between the United States and Russia will not affect Sino-Russian strategic cooperation. International politics is only guided by interests, and no one can have wishful thinking and feelings first.
2 isThe Russian-Ukrainian war is protracted, and Russia is and will necessarily be a country at war。
Russia has launched a “special military operation” against Ukraine, which is the fourth year of the Russian-Ukrainian war. There is currently no possibility of a ceasefire or a ceasefire, nor is there any possibility that Russia and Ukraine can sit down and negotiate.
MOSCOW "Russia's borders have no end," Putin said on a poster for the Russian presidential election.
In the context of the Russia-Ukraine war, Sino-Russian relations and cooperation between the two countries will always be under the close attention, surveillance and criticism of the United States and the West.
In recent years, China’s relations with the western world have slowed rapidly, with hundreds of thousands of US-West sanctions passively targeted by the Chinese side.The Chinese side has become the biggest indirect victim of the war due to the continued consumption of political and economic and diplomatic resources.
In an interview with China News Agency on August 30, Putin concluded that within the framework of the BRICS countries, Russia and China actively cooperate to jointly promote initiatives aimed at expanding the opportunities for economic development of the member countries, including the establishment of a joint partnership platform in key areas.
The problem is that Russia’s “discriminatory sanctions” are because of the war; but China’s “discriminatory sanctions” are because of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
China-Russia strategic partnership must be mutualRussia has an obligation to protect its strategic partner’s interests without being harmed, but it has not actively demanded that its partners pay the cost of Russia’s own war, donate resources, and not the pretext of undermining China’s international image and global interests by sending a knife to the U.S. West.
For example, as a country at war, any attempt by Russian officials to pull their southern neighbors into their own chariots through foreign remarks is extremely immoral.
The Russian-Ukrainian war has become a consuming, camp-based confrontation between Russia and Ukraine and the entire Western world.
Just as Iran leads an "arc of resistance" against Israel in the Middle East, Russia is also leading an "arc of resistance" in the world against the West and the so-called NATO threat.
In this regard, we must never be a warrior on the Russian "Arc of Resistance", a node, a martyr for the Russians, nor can we allow the Russians to have such fantasies.
Yes.Sino-Russian relations have reached an era where I must be the main one。
Regarding the Russian-Ukrainian war, the position we have repeatedly clarified is: objectively neutral, persuading and promoting negotiations.
True strategic partners are those who support each other, make progress together and live a good life together. Don't keep trying to find someone to take a bullet.
After all, who has had a good day?