Chinese president, Xi Jinpingtravel to Moscow tomorrow to attend the parade for the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany and meet with Vladimir Putin, with whom it is expected to close ranks against the US trade war and the criticisms of the EU, who sees in Beijing a “key facilitator” of the conflict.
XI, who visits the country for the eleventh time since 2013, It will maintain a “strategic communication” with Putin “on the development of Sino-Ruses” relationships “ And about “a series of important international and regional issues,” according to Beijing.
“We are confident that the important consensus between both leaders will further deepen mutual political confidence, promote pragmatic cooperation in various fields and provide greater benefits to the peoples of both countries,” said a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry last weekend.
According to the portfolio, XI and Putin previously agreed that both parties attend the military parade to “honor the martyrs, defend the results of the victory in war and the international post -war order, and defend international equity and justice.”
Thus, and on the occasion of the parade, the Popular Liberation Army will send an honor guard, as it did in 2015, and something that analysts interpret as a gesture of “support to the international system after World War II”.
Putin had already anticipated XI’s visit, which he defined as a “dear friend”, during his meeting on April 1 in Moscow with the Chinese outdoor headline, Wang Yi, who, on the other hand, highlighted before his Russian pair, Serguéi Lavrov, which “Today there is an intense struggle both in the unilateral and multilateral field, in a scenario marked by competition between those who seek to maintain hegemony and those who oppose it.”
The Chinese press highlights today that the visit occurs at a time when “the international order is experiencing deep adjustments and multilateralism is being challenged”, something called to “boost the relationship between China and Russia, demonstrating to the international community the firm position of both countries to oppose intimidating practices”, in clear allusion to Donald Trump and its commercial war.
According to a Foreign Ministry spokesman, this year, the 80th anniversary of the United Nations Foundation will also be commemorated, where China and “Russia will further strengthen its close coordination” with the agenda to boost the participation of the Global South in the body.
The visit is also marked by the accusations of Brussels that Beijing remains “a key facilitator for the continuous war of aggression of Russia,” according to CE Anitta Hipper’s spokeswoman in a press conference.
“Without the support of China to Russia, Russia would not be able to continue its war of aggression against Ukraine with the same force”he said.
For his part, Beijing has repeatedly rejected the accusations of the West about his military support to Moscow but has not condemned the invasion, limiting himself to advocating “respect for the territorial integrity of the countries” but also for “attending the” legitimate concerns of all parties “, in reference to Russia.
China says that he has actively defended and promoted “the peaceful resolution” of the war while Russia has raised a 72 -hour truce around the festivities for the end of World War II that would take effect at midnight from May 7 to 8.
During the visit, Xi will seek to strengthen his good relationship with Putin after the arrival of Trump and despite criticism for his support for Moscow: and it is that in February 2022, shortly before the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Xi and Putin they already declared a “friendship without limits”, and since then China has defended that the relationship “does not threaten any country”.
In that sense, the researcher Li Yonghui, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, highlights the “notable results” achieved in cooperation in sectors such as automotive, electromechanics and agriculture, which have allowed, in 2023, bilateral trade exceeding 240,000 million dollars.
(With EFE information)
