China’s Xi and Russia’s Putin reaffirm ‘old friend’ ties during meetings in the face of US challenges

Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, welcomed him as a “old friend”, where the two held a series of meetings on Tuesday at a time when their countries face overlapping and different challenges from the United States.

Relations between China and Russia have deepened in recent years, especially after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. The approach of US President Donald Trump in the war added to the relationship but it does not seem mainly to others.

Putin Xi addressed as a “dear friend” and said that Moscow’s relations with Beijing “are” at an unprecedented high level. “

In a sign of the importance of placing China on the relationship, its official meeting followed tea with senior assistants at Zhongnanhai, the punctured complex that is the center of power in China with housing and offices of its senior leaders.

China announced after talks that it would start providing a 30 -day visa free access to Russian travelers who start later this month.

The talks come the next day to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the nearby Chinese city of Tianjin, and the previous day a major Chinese military parade in Beijing to celebrate the eighties of the end of World War II.

The Soviet Union was neutral in most of the war in Asia, but it provided China in the fighting earlier against the invasion of Japanese forces in the thirties of the twentieth century. The war also declared the war on Japan during the days of World War II and sent forces over the border to northeastern Japanese.

“We were always together at the time, we stay together now,” Putin said.

China says it is neutral in the Ukraine war, but it provided Russia’s economic artery by continuing to trade despite Western sanctions.

Alexei Miller, CEO of Gazprom in Beijing, said, according to news agency in Interfax, that a memorandum signed to build another natural gas pipeline to China.

The news agency said that the Russian government gas company also signed agreements with a Chinese government energy company to increase the current road delivery operations.

The United States and the European Union also set sanctions on Chinese companies, which they say have incited the Russian military industry.

“China and Russia face the same problem and should work together to deal with pressure from the United States,” said Lee Xin, director of the Institute of European and Asian Studies at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law.

China is also one of the main targets of Trump taxes on imports, although it retracted what was the escalating tariff war and its management began negotiations with Beijing in a commercial deal.

The Schenghai Cooperation Organization summit of 10 members and Putin brought with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who held separate talks with both leaders on the sidelines of the Tianjin meeting.

The sharp tariff for US President Donald Trump prompted India that the tone coming from the White House has pushed New Delhi to China and Russia, although Moody will not attend the Chinese military procession.

Xi tried to put China as a leader of the countries that feel freedom through the post -Second World War, which is dominated by the United States.

At the summit of cooperation in Shanghai and again in his meetings with Putin, he suggested an initiative to build a “more just and fair and just global governance system”.

He told me that China does not want to turn the global system, but it changes it to better serve its interests.

“China and Russia have no yet able to change the global order, but they are constantly pressing for the reforms that benefit them,” he said.

Putin was brutal with a triple meeting with Mongolian President Kurelsukh Ukhnaa before their talks. Its non -coastal country of herbal lands and mineral resources is located between the giants.

Putin said in the opening notes that the three countries are good neighbors, with a common interest in developing relations.

In 2024, Putin made an official visit to Mongolia, where the government ignored invitations to arrest him based on an international criminal court for the alleged war crimes caused by the invasion of Ukraine.