Chinese Russian: President Xi talks with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin
Chinese-Russian: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Tuesday in Beijing, according to both nations’ official media.
According to Russian official agency TASS, Mishustin, who is now in China for two days, met with the Chinese leader in a bilateral meeting in the Great Hall of the People in the Chinese capital.
A sizable team, which included Tatyana Golikova, the deputy prime minister, and the Russian prime minister arrived in Hangzhou on Monday. Wang Yi, the Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister, and other officials represented the Chinese side.
According to China’s official media Xinhua, Mishustin met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang yesterday, and the two sides agreed that the strategic direction taken by the leaders of both nations provides political assurances for cooperation and ties between China and Russia.
“China is ready to consolidate the integration of development strategies with Russia, expand cooperation across the board and continuously develop Chinese-Russian relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation in the new era and progress along the path of modernization together,” Li told TASS.
Li made the comments yesterday in Hangzhou while serving as co-chair of the 30th regular meeting of the Russian and Chinese chiefs of state.
Additionally, the two leaders suggested boosting bilateral collaboration investment and broadening cooperation platforms.
The Russian prime minister’s trip to China comes after Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump met one-on-one last week in South Korea for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference. Trump had called the discussions with Xi “amazing.”
When CNN covered the encounter, it used White House-released photos of Xi in a rare unguarded moment, seeming “to grin with his eyes shut, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi laughing by his side.”
The US and China seemed to have achieved a ceasefire after months of rising trade tensions, as Trump signed a one-year deal with China on rare earth supply, bringing the total tax on Chinese imports down to 47%.
Trump said on October 23 that the summit would be postponed indefinitely because he did not want a “wasted meeting.” As a result, the planned meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest has not yet taken place.
Putin has suggested that the Budapest summit has probably been rescheduled rather than canceled, according to TASS.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was quoted by the Russian media source as saying that the Putin-Trump summit should not be the main emphasis, but rather the peace efforts in Ukraine.