{"id":22153,"date":"2024-04-09T12:07:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T12:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/xi-meets-with-russias-foreign-minister-reaffirming-ties\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T12:07:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T12:07:31","slug":"xi-meets-with-russias-foreign-minister-reaffirming-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/xi-meets-with-russias-foreign-minister-reaffirming-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi Meets With Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister, Reaffirming Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/04\/09\/multimedia\/09china-russia-hfzw\/09china-russia-hfzw-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,549&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Xi Meets With Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister, Reaffirming Ties\" title=\"Xi Meets With Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister, Reaffirming Ties\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">China\u2019s top leader, Xi Jinping, and Russia\u2019s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, met in Beijing on Tuesday, in a session seen as laying the groundwork for an expected visit to China by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and pushing back against mounting pressure from the United States and its allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Lavrov\u2019s visit came just days after Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/06\/business\/economy\/us-china-yellen.html\" title=\"\">warned of \u201csignificant consequences\u201d<\/a> if Chinese companies provided material support for Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine. It also took place as President Biden was set to host the leaders of Japan and the Philippines on Wednesday to boost economic and security ties to counter China\u2019s growing assertiveness in Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Earlier in the day, Mr. Lavrov met with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, and said the two sides had talked about deepening security ties to resist the West&#8217;s \u201canti-Chinese\u201d and \u201canti-Russian orientation.\u201d In a sign of the Kremlin\u2019s continued deference to China, Mr. Lavrov reaffirmed Russia\u2019s rejection of any \u201coutside interference\u201d over Beijing\u2019s claims to the de facto independent island of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is no place for dictatorships, hegemony, neocolonial and colonial practices, which are now being widely used by the United States and the rest of the \u2018collective West,\u2019\u201d Mr. Lavrov said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Wang\u2019s remarks were more measured \u2014 a reflection of China\u2019s difficult balancing act in supporting Russia while also trying to avoid alienating important trading partners in Western Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">China\u2019s top diplomat did not mention the United States by name, a common practice by Chinese officials, and instead called for Russia and China to \u201coppose all hegemonic and bullying behaviors\u201d and \u201coppose the Cold War mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Xi and Mr. Putin declared a \u201cno limits\u201d partnership in February 2022, days before Russian forces invaded Ukraine. While China has cast itself as neutral, its tacit support for the war underscores how it <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/07\/world\/asia\/putin-ukraine-china-xi.html\" title=\"\">still needs close ties with Russia<\/a> to weaken the global dominance of its chief competitor, the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Moscow, by aligning closely with Beijing, wants to demonstrate that it is not globally isolated despite its invasion of Ukraine. China provides Russia with diplomatic cover and an economic lifeline by purchasing Russian oil, gas and coal, and by selling Chinese consumer goods and technology to Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Together, the two sides have tried to forge an alternative world order by marshaling support from the developing world through multilateral organizations like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/22\/world\/europe\/brics-summit.html\" title=\"\">BRICS<\/a>, a group named for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa that promotes economic and political ties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia and China have also garnered support from countries such as Iran and North Korea which oppose the West and have a shared interest in weakening the power of U.S. sanctions and the role of human rights in global politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin is expected to visit China, perhaps as soon as next month. A date has yet to be confirmed, though the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists on Tuesday that Mr. Lavrov\u2019s visit could be considered as \u201cpreparation for contacts at the highest level.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/09\/world\/asia\/xi-lavrov-russia-china.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s top leader, Xi Jinping, and Russia\u2019s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, met in Beijing on Tuesday, in a session seen as laying the groundwork for an expected visit to China by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and pushing back against mounting pressure from the United States and its allies. 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