Xi assures Putin that although the globe is in disarray, friendship with Russia will continue

Chinese President Xi Jinping reminded Russian President Vladimir Putin that although instability was engulfing the world, Beijing’s strategic alliance with Moscow was a source of stability among the biggest shifts in a century.

In May, Xi and Putin promised a “new era” of cooperation between the two most potent adversaries of the United States, portraying it as an aggressive Cold War hegemony wreaking havoc on the planet.

At the start of the BRICS meeting in Kazan, Russia, Xi informed Putin, “At the moment, the world is going through changes unseen in a hundred years, the international situation is intertwined with chaos.”

“But I firmly believe that the friendship between China and Russia will continue for generations, and great countries’ responsibility to their people will not change.”

China, under pressure from a deliberate U.S. attempt to undermine its expanding military and economic dominance, and Russia, which is fighting war against Ukrainian forces sponsored by NATO, have increasingly found similar ground geopolitically.

Russia and China have attempted to depict the West as decadent and in decline in retaliation for the perceived humiliations of the Soviet collapse in 1991 and centuries of European colonial rule of China.

President Joe Biden has stated that autocracies like China and Russia pose a threat to democracies, and the United States views China as its greatest rival and Russia as its greatest nation-state threat.

Biden has called Putin a “killer” and even a “crazy SOB,” and he has called Xi a “dictator.” Biden has been chastised by Moscow and Beijing for the remarks.

Putin spoke to Xi as a “dear friend” and said that the alliance with China was a global stabilizing factor.

“Russian-Chinese cooperation in world affairs is one of the main stabilizing factors on the world stage,” Putin stated.

“We intend to further enhance coordination on all multilateral platforms in order to ensure global security and a just world order.”

According to Xi, collaboration within the BRICS group is “the most important platform for solidarity and cooperation between emerging market countries and developing countries in the world today.”

He stated that it was “a mainstay force in promoting the realization of equal and orderly global multipolarity, as well as inclusive and tolerant economic globalisation.”