China-Russia Relations: Chinese Vice FM Visits Russia To Boost Mutual Trust

Russia receives China's Vice FM in a recent state visit to boost trust as the US, and its allies are more antagonistic to them, especially Washington. Ma Zhaoxu spent two days in Russia from Thursday to Friday on the big push to increase bilateral ties, meeting the Russian Foreign Minister and others at the year's start, reported Global Times.

Russia To Boost Trust with Beijing

During the state visit that engaged the diplomacies of the two allies, Vice FM Ma spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with other officials. Both expressed how Chinese and Russian relations were on all levels, from bilateral or overall cooperation to global and regional issues affecting them presently, noted SCMP.

These interactions with Moscow and Beijing are considered a major move of their respective diplomatic departments to enhance bilateral relations further. It was noted by Zhang Hang, a research fellow at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, remarked an outlet last Saturday.

On the New Year, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping sent greeting to each other on December 31.

Both leaders met on December 30 via a video conference, where Xi said that both nations have to amplify their strategic interests more than ever to give their countries more stability. Western emphasis on the Russian Federation and China as challenges to US hegemony that pulls its unwilling allies to confront them.

Recently FM Lavrov congratulated Qin Gang as the Chinese Foreign minister and spoke about developing a working relationship with him on foreign policies their respective governments will pursue. Implicating that close cooperation will be the lynchpin of their successful interaction, citing CGTN.

Chinese Vice FM Says Cooperation with Moscow Is Important

Zhang Hang focused on the strategic guidance of the heads of state and spoke of the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination at the start of 2023 for top-level development and more political trust-related issues. Drew more attention to seeing all the fields their nation would gain from international coordination to counter those against them.

Added for it to get off without a hitch, that needed an agreement by their top leaders to maximize the overall benefits of such a two-way relationship. A subject of discussion would be the Ukraine conflict as the highlight of top-level talks for the state visit. Many challenges have arisen that must be dealt with, like how Washington is stoking the war against Moscow by giving military assistance to Ukraine.

The US is crossing a red line by sending bombs with longer ranges to embolden Kyiv to attack Russia itself, angering Putin, mentioned AP News.

Vice FM Ma places it bluntly that the Biden administration pushing the war by giving Ukrainians weapons it won't give before is provocative. It showed the intention of Washington to hold Russia in check, which benefits the US administration. Such moves will heighten the conflict that could lead to catastrophe.

Qin, on his part, states that Beijing will base considerations on the fundamental guidance of Xi on four points for all nations, as opposed to the US divisive action.