Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian – People’s Republic of China in Russian –
Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, May 8 /Xinhua/ — China and Russia will increase interaction and strengthen coordination to decisively counter Washington’s course of “dual containment” of China and Russia, both sides said on Thursday.
They expressed this intention in the joint statement of China and Russia on further deepening the relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction in the new era, signed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The statement indicates that the parties resolutely oppose the imposition of hostile approaches towards China and Russia on third countries in various regions of the world, as well as the discrediting of Chinese-Russian cooperation.
The parties noted that the United States and its allies are trying to expand NATO’s presence in the Asia-Pacific region and create narrow coalitions there, involving regional countries in the implementation of their “Indo-Pacific strategies”, thereby undermining peace, stability and prosperity in the region.
The parties consider it unacceptable to build military blocs with anti-Russian and anti-Chinese orientations with a common nuclear component, to deploy nuclear weapons in the region under the guise of “extended deterrence,” to deploy global missile defense systems and ground-based medium-range missile systems that threaten strategic stability, the statement emphasizes. –0–