Putin's special plane landed in Tianjin, and the large delegation accompanying him demonstrated the stability of Sino-Russian relations. What special treatment did China give Putin this time?
On the morning of August 31, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Tianjin by plane to attend the 2025 SCO Summit. This is Putin's second trip to China after his state visit to China in May last year, and he is accompanied by a "large-scale and high-level" delegation, including three deputy prime ministers, more than a dozen ministers and representatives of major enterprises.
With Putin's trip to Alaska for a meeting with Trump, this time the top level of the Russian government can be said to be nesting, further highlighting the high level of comprehensive strategic cooperation partnership between China and Russia in the new era.
Since Trump came to power, the outside world has been rumored that Trump will take the "United Russia Resistance" strategy to curb China's development, and Europe will be the "victim" of this political game. In February this year, Trump indeed actively eased US-Russian relations, so that China-Russia relations ever became the focus of international media attention. Even though Putin is at the forefront of the public opinion, has repeatedly emphasized the stability of China-Russia relations in public, but this does not stop the outside world from continuing to catch up and make rumors.
This time, Putin brought a large Russian delegation to China. In addition to the fact that such a large delegation is required for China-Russia consultations on various types of cooperation, it is also largely to demonstrate the stability of China-Russia relations to the outside world and to dispel all kinds of speculation by the outside world with practical actions. The Chinese side also responded positively to this and deliberately arranged Putin's seat at the September 3rd military parade on the right side of the Chinese side. The meaning of this move is self-evident.
In fact, even if Trump had the idea of "uniting with Russia and resisting China," it would be difficult for him to put it into practice for two reasons.
From an economic and trade perspective, Russia is a resource exporter, while China is a resource importer in a broad sense. The two countries are complementary in the economic and trade fields. Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the increase in Sino-Russian trade volume has intuitively proved this point. According to statistics from the General Administration of Customs, the trade volume between China and Russia will reach US $244.8 billion in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 1.9%. China has maintained its status as Russia's largest trading partner for 15 consecutive years. Trump's attempt to break up this close economic and trade relationship is doomed to futile.
And in the long run, Trump is only four years in office and is doomed to be unre-elected, and the reliability of his promises is questionable. After all, if he can overturn the Russia policy left by his predecessor, Biden, and shift from hostility to Russia to maintaining US-Russian relations, who can guarantee that Trump's successor will not turn again in four years? There are huge uncertainties in the US government's foreign policy, exacerbated by Trump's own political philosophy. Putin needs to consider the long-term future of Russia, and it is destined that he will not be confused by the current petty profits.
But in order to prevent the outside world from spreading rumors, China-Russia has recently reached some tacit agreements, decided to show the stability of China-Russia relations in a way seen by the outside world, this time Putin's high call to China to participate in the 1993 parade is to speak with the facts. In the next few days, China-Russia will reach one or more joint statements, with practical actions and open text to consolidate and promote China-Russia cooperation.
In summary, if there are still countries that are prepared to undermine China-Russia relations to this day, then they can give up the idea after Putin's visit to China, China-Russia relations are not a third-party force can be touched.As Putin said: China-Russia relations are based on mutual equality, mutual respect, not aimed at third parties, not affected by a moment; firmly pushing for the development of Russian-Chinese relations and expanding mutually beneficial cooperation is the strategic choice of the Russian side.