BEIJING: Senior Russian official Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday (Nov 12) instructed China’s international minister Wang Yi their two international locations’ most pressing job needs to be countering “containment” by america, as they met for safety talks in Beijing.
Moscow and Beijing have expanded navy and defence ties since Russia ordered troops into Ukraine practically three years in the past, with Chinese language President Xi Jinping considered one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most essential allies on the world stage.
However Beijing has additionally discovered itself more and more caught between a burgeoning alliance of Russia and North Korea, which has despatched troopers to Ukraine and this week ratified a landmark defence pact with Moscow.
Chatting with Wang in Beijing, Shoigu, the secretary of Russia’s Safety Council, burdened the necessity for China and Russia to “counter the ‘twin containment’ coverage directed in opposition to Russia and China by america and its satellites”.
“The great partnership and strategic cooperation (between China and Russia) symbolize a mannequin of collaboration between two powers in at the moment’s world,” Shoigu instructed China’s prime diplomat.
“Though it isn’t a military-political alliance like these fashioned throughout the Chilly Warfare, the relations between our international locations surpass this type of interstate relations,” he stated, quoted in Russian information companies.
Forward of the talks, Beijing stated the 2 officers would maintain “strategic safety consultations” this week and would focus on “main points involving the 2 international locations’ strategic safety pursuits and enhancing mutual belief”.
