Beijing, 3 Mar (ZXS) -- Experts interpret Xi Jinping's visit to Russia during a journey of friendship, cooperation and peace
China News Agency reporter Xie Yanbing, Li Jingze, Ma Shuaisha
At the invitation of Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to the Russian Federation from March 3 to 20.
This trip to Russia is President Xi Jinping's first foreign visit since he was re-elected president, and it also kicks off a new curtain on the diplomacy of the Chinese head of state this year. As the evolution of the century-old changes accelerates and the world enters a new period of turbulence and change, as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and a major power in the world, how China-Russia relations develop is related to global strategic stability and security, and to the future evolution of the world pattern.
What is the importance and particularity of this visit? What important information has been conveyed to the outside world on hot and difficult issues? What impact will the development of China-Russia relations have on the region and the world? China News Agency's "China Focus Face-to-Face" invited Chen Yurong, a researcher at the China Institute of International Studies, to give an interpretation.
China News Agency's "China Focus Face-to-Face" invited Chen Yurong, a researcher at the China Institute of International Studies, to give an interpretation. Photo by Jiang Qiming, reporter of China News Agency
Provide new momentum for the future development of China-Russia relations
China News Agency: This is President Xi Jinping's first foreign visit since he was re-elected president, and it is also the diplomatic opening work of the new Chinese government, which has attracted great attention from the international community. In your opinion, what are the importance and particularities of this visit?
Chen Yurong: President Xi Jinping's visit to Russia is of great significance at a time. This visit is President Xi Jinping's first foreign visit after his continued election as President of the People's Republic of China, and it is also the opening of diplomacy after the formation of the new Chinese government, which is very special in terms of time.
From the perspective of bilateral relations between China and Russia, this visit is a landmark visit. At present, China and Russia are at an important stage of development, and the international situation is complicated, in this context, face-to-face in-depth exchanges and communication between the Chinese and Russian heads of state are of great historical significance to the strategic guidance of the future development of China-Russia relations.
President Xi Jinping said that this visit to Russia is a journey of friendship, cooperation and peace. Regarding the friendship trip, the visit further enhanced the friendship between the Chinese and Russian peoples. "The friendship of the country lies in the affinity of the people", we saw ordinary Russians spontaneously holding the national flag to welcome President Xi Jinping, and there were welcome signs with Chinese and Russian slogans written on the way from Moscow airport to the city.
Regarding the cooperation trip, the Chinese and Russian heads of state made strategic plans and strategic guidance for deepening and far-reaching the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in the new era, and made further detailed plans for deepening practical cooperation in various fields between the two countries, providing new momentum for the future development of China-Russia relations.
Regarding the peace journey, in the context of the delay of the Ukraine crisis, President Xi Jinping has repeatedly reiterated China's position of persuading peace and promoting talks and political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, which is of special historical significance.
In addition, from the perspective of international relations, China and Russia conducted in-depth communication and exchanges on the current complex situation of international relations, discussed the measures of the two countries to jointly cope with the changes in the world, times and history, and indicated that the two countries will work together to promote the democratization of international relations and jointly build a community with a shared future for mankind.
China News Agency: During the visit, the Chinese and Russian heads of state signed and issued two joint statements to plan and make arrangements for the development of bilateral relations and cooperation in various fields in the next stage. The two sides reached a consensus to expand cooperation in information technology, digital economy, agriculture, service trade and other fields, and promote the complementary and synchronous development of traditional trade and cooperation in emerging fields. How will these specific pragmatic cooperation arrangements affect the development of China-Russia relations and regional economic development?
Chen Yurong: The China-Russia Joint Statement has made new plans for the long-term development of bilateral relations, stable and far-reaching, and specific cooperation arrangements will help promote the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in the new era to a new stage and a new level.
In the joint statement, the two heads of state particularly emphasized the promotion of high-quality development of China-Russia economic and trade cooperation. In fact, China-Russia relations have been in a high-level state of operation, the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries has been deepening, China has become Russia's largest trading partner for 13 consecutive years, and the bilateral trade volume between China and Russia will exceed 2022 billion US dollars in 1900, and it is expected to achieve 2023 billion US dollars in 2000.
Despite this, the potential of complementary advantages in the economic fields of the two countries has not yet been fully released, and under the increasing pressure of global economic recovery, China and Russia have made important plans this time in expanding the scale of economic and trade cooperation and realizing the in-depth development of pragmatic cooperation in various fields.
The joint statement stressed that in order to achieve long-term independent development of the two countries, it is necessary to expand the scale of trade, optimize the trade structure and innovate the mode of cooperation. In particular, in specific areas, such as consolidating the all-encompassing energy partnership; Improve the level of financial cooperation, and steadily increase the proportion of local currency settlement in bilateral trade, investment, loans and other economic and trade exchanges to meet market demand; Vigorously develop interconnected logistics systems. The specific cooperation arrangements and plans in the joint statement have injected new momentum into China-Russia local cooperation, and China-Russia local cooperation plays a major role in China-Russia economic and trade activities.
China News Agency's "China Focus Face-to-Face" invited Chen Yurong (right), a researcher at the China Institute of International Studies, to interpret it. Photo by Jiang Qiming, reporter of China News Agency
Release a positive signal for peace talks to resolve the Ukrainian crisis
China News Agency: During this visit, the two heads of state jointly signed and signed a joint statement between Russia and Russia on deepening the comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in the new era. In this joint statement, the Russian side positively evaluates China's objective and fair position on the Ukraine issue and welcomes China's willingness to play an active role in resolving the Ukrainian crisis through political and diplomatic means. What role do you think China's position can play in promoting a political solution to the crisis?
Chen Yurong: China's position is to achieve a political solution to the Ukrainian crisis, advocate persuasion and promote talks, and oppose adding fuel to the fire. This visit to Russia provides positive energy for the political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis. President Xi Jinping talked about China's position on political settlement of the crisis through his signed article and interview with President Putin. China believes that as long as all parties uphold the concept of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security and adhere to equal, rational and pragmatic dialogue and consultation, they will certainly be able to find a reasonable way to resolve the Ukraine crisis. President Xi Jinping spoke very frankly, and during his visit, he also pointed out that historically, conflicts have been resolved through dialogue and negotiation.
President Putin also responded positively to China's position. The Russian side spoke highly of China's objective, fair and balanced position, said that the Russian side has carefully studied China's position paper, is open to peace talks, and welcomes China to play a constructive role in this regard. We have seen that in the Sino-Russian joint statement, Russia reaffirmed its commitment to resuming peace talks as soon as possible. This shows that China's efforts to persuade peace and promote talks have been reciprocated.
More than a year after the escalation of the crisis in Ukraine, it could have been resolved through negotiations, but there have been ups and downs, mainly because of insufficient awareness of a political solution to the crisis. As a responsible major country, China has always adhered to the principle of stopping war and persuading peace. All along, President Xi Jinping has communicated with the leaders of major Western countries, hoping to resolve the Ukrainian crisis as soon as possible through peaceful dialogue. China's reaffirmation of its constructive position this time is of great constructive significance to the Ukraine crisis to get out of the predicament and achieve peace at an early date.
Western countries have played a role in the Ukrainian crisis, and the delay and escalation of the Ukrainian crisis is the result of the West, especially the US-led NATO bloc, adhering to the Cold War mentality, unilateralism and hegemonism. They continue to send weapons and equipment to Ukraine, which has led to the escalation of the situation on the battlefield and the death and death of a large number of innocent civilians.
Unilateralism, hegemonism and bloc politics are extremely toxic to international and regional peace and stability. We resolutely oppose unilateralism and hegemonism and the use of unilateral sanctions to solve problems. Unilateral sanctions of "long-arm jurisdiction" do not solve the crisis, but on the contrary create new difficulties.
During this visit, it can be truly felt that China plays a positive and constructive role in promoting world peace and maintaining regional stability, so China's position was immediately positively responded by Russia.
China News Agency: We have noted that China and Russia pointed out in the joint statement that the relationship between the two countries is non-aligned, non-confrontational and not aimed at any third country. Many countries see the significance of China-Russia cooperation for world multipolarization and democracy in international relations, as well as global strategic balance and stability, but some Western politicians and media still continue to hype that the continuous approach of China and Russia is a challenge to the international order. How do you see Sino-Russian cooperation and its international implications?
Chen Yurong: Regarding China-Russia relations, President Xi Jinping said that the development of China-Russia relations has a clear historical logic and strong endogenous driving force.
China and Russia are two major neighbors of each other, with a high degree of mutual trust politically, complementary economic advantages and mutual cultural learning. In the past 10 years, under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China and Russia have established a comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in the new era, the relations between the two countries have continued to develop at a high level, and the two sides have achieved fruitful results in practical cooperation in various fields. As two major countries, China and Russia have always adhered to the concept of friendship and win-win cooperation from generation to generation, respected each other's development paths, and set a model for a new type of major-country relations. The long-term good-neighborly and friendly relations between China and Russia, as well as mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields, have brought tangible benefits to the Chinese and Russian peoples and have also become an important support for world peace and stability. We have seen that this Sino-Russian joint statement once again reaffirms that the nature of Sino-Russian relations is non-alignment, non-confrontation and non-targeting of third countries.
However, some Western countries do not look at reality and wear the glasses of the Cold War mentality to slander and smear Sino-Russian relations, which has ulterior motives. In fact, malicious slandering of China-Russia relations is still a full manifestation of the Cold War mentality, bloc politics, unilateralism and hegemonism. Obviously, this kind of thinking lags behind the times, does not conform to the historical trend of peace and development today, and will certainly be spurned by history.
On the afternoon of March 3, local time, President Xi Jinping held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Moscow Kremlin. Putin held a grand welcome ceremony for Xi Jinping in the George Hall. This is a joint photo of the two heads of state shaking hands and taking a group photo. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi
China and Russia join hands to promote the process of democratization of international relations
China News Agency: On March 2013, 3, President Xi Jinping put forward the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind for the first time in his speech at the Moscow Institute of International Relations. This year marks the 23th anniversary of the concept. We note that during this visit, President Xi Jinping pointed out that China and Russia should promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. Today's world is at a critical juncture of turmoil, how do you see the practical significance of the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind?
Chen Yurong: President Xi Jinping's concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and the Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative and Global Civilization Initiative reflect China's thinking on coping with today's complex international situation. In today's world, where local conflicts are occurring one after another, hot issues are frequent, traditional and non-traditional security threats are superimposed, and the world economy recovery is weak, President Xi Jinping's new ideas and ideas have put forward China's solutions to the changes in today's world, times and history.
The core idea of China's plan is to safeguard international peace and security and promote global development and prosperity. This should become the common pursuit of all countries in the world, and international security requires the joint efforts of all countries. At present, countries around the world increasingly feel that everyone lives in a global village where you have me and I have you, and the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind has been widely recognized and praised by the international community.
During this visit, the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and the three initiatives also received positive responses from Russia. As President Xi Jinping said, "As permanent members of the UN Security Council and major powers in the world, China and Russia have an unshirkable responsibility to work together to guide and promote global governance in the direction of meeting the expectations of the international community and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind." ”
China News Agency: China and Russia are not only permanent members of the UN Security Council, but also members of a series of influential international organizations and multilateral mechanisms such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BRICS mechanism and the G20. During his talks with President Putin, President Xi Jinping pointed out that China and Russia should strengthen communication and coordination within the multilateral framework and practice true multilateralism. How should China and Russia play a leading role as major countries and promote the reform and improvement of the global governance system?
Chen Yurong: An important part of the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in the new era is reflected in the interaction, communication and close cooperation between the two countries at the international affairs level. China and Russia uphold the concept of win-win cooperation to develop bilateral relations, and on this basis, jointly promote regional cooperation and promote the establishment and development of multilateral mechanisms. For example, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BRICS mechanism, etc.
China and Russia have exerted positive energy in the process of safeguarding international peace and security and promoting global development and prosperity. It is precisely because of the close cooperation between China and Russia that the SCO and BRICS mechanisms have developed rapidly, and the concepts pursued by China and Russia have been praised by more and more countries. Through close cooperation, China and Russia actively practice true multilateralism and promote the process of democratization of international relations. (End)