Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping on Wednesday hailed their Eurasian Security Club as a force for global power at the highest level of the provincial body, which Moscow and Beijing have seen as a way to counter Western influence. See as a tool.
Putin and the Chinese president have expanded the Shanghai Cooperation Association (SCO), which was established in 2001 with Russia, China and other focal Asian countries, including India, Iran and Pakistan as a stabilizing force towards the West. was added.
“The relationship has established a reasonable starting point for itself as an important cause of interest for a fair, multipolar world,” Putin said.
“Our cooperation is not against anyone, we are not creating any partnership or association, we are only working in the light of genuine concern for our social classes,” Putin said.
In his keynote remarks, Xi told Putin that China and Russia should “continue the fundamental goal of friendship for the ages” while taking into account the “constantly changing conditions around the world”.
Citing a “dear colleague”, Xi recommended that the two countries have gained a basis for setting up “a system of order and activity for the improvement of mutual relations”.
The Kremlin said Putin held a development bilateral meeting at the highest level of the Shanghai Partnership Association, which is being held in the Kazakh capital Astana and ends on Thursday.
The SCO takes routine measures to manage external security threats, for example, the exchange of medicines and also focuses on countering any domestic uncertainties.
Ahead of his meeting with Xi Jinping, Putin met with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Head of State Shehbaz Sharif and the heads of Azerbaijan and Mongolia Ilham Aliyev and Ukhnagin Kharsukh.
India said state leader Narendra Modi, who has been a regular in Moscow for a long time to come, would not go to the Astana gathering, sending an obscure minister, Subramaniam Jaishankar, all things considered.
‘No Limits’ Association
China and Russia announced a “no-limits” union in February 2022 when Putin visited Beijing before sending massive troop numbers to Ukraine. Since then, Xi and Putin have improved relations.
Xi and Putin acknowledge that the post-Cold Conflict era under US influence is crumbling.
The United States views China as its greatest rival and Russia as its greatest nation-state threat. US President Joe Biden says this century will mark an existential challenge between vote-based systems and authoritarianism.
Finally, at the virtual end of the year, the gathering condemned what it called “worldwide deployment of missile defenses by specific nations or assemblies of nations,” without directly referring to NATO expansion or Western military aid to Ukraine. One-sided and unlimited development of the framework” described the negative consequences.
In a move that highlighted Beijing’s down-to-earth economic approach, Xi held an event with his Kazakh partner on Wednesday hours before meeting Putin, to discuss the Trans-Caspian World Wide Web. A new group of freighters can be stamped on the flight with the vehicle course.
The course, otherwise known as the Center Hallway, starts in Southeast Asia and China and runs through Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia and onward to Europe. In contrast to Asia-Europe land travel via Russia, the West has strongly promoted it as an option.
The Kremlin said that Belarus would interestingly go to the summit of Astana as a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Secretary-General of the acceding countries, Antonio Guterres, is also expected to attend the Astana gathering.
