Chinese leader Xi Jinping reaffirmed the 'no-limits' partnership with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Beijing summit on Thursday, officials said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Chinese leader Xi Jinping for his effort to resolve the Ukraine conflict at a Beijing summit Thursday, where the two leaders reaffirmed a 'no-limits' partnership that has grown deeper as both countries face deepening tensions with the west.
Both sides want to show that despite what is happening globally, despite the pressure that both sides are facing from the U.S., both sides are not about to turn their backs on each other anytime soon,' said Hoo Tiang Boon, a professor who studies Chinese foreign policy at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. While both leaders said they were seeking an end to the war in Ukraine, they offered no new specifics in their public remarks Thursday afternoon.
China hopes for the early return of Europe to peace and stability and will continue to play a constructive role toward this,' Xi said, speaking alongside Putin. His words were an echo of what China said last year when it first offered a broad plan for peace outlining general principles for ending the war in Ukraine.
Putin has blamed the West for the failure of negotiations in the opening weeks of the war and praised China’s peace plan. Russia-China military ties have also strengthened during the war in Ukraine. They have held a series of joint war games in recent years, including naval drills and patrols by long-range bombers over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea. Russian and Chinese ground forces also have deployed to the other country’s territory for joint drills.
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