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China and Russia want fair world order, won’t bend to ‘external factors’, Russian security chief says

  • Comments from Nikolai Patrushev come days after Xi-Putin meeting on SCO sidelines in Uzbekistan
  • Russian Security Council secretary and close Putin ally is in China for annual bilateral security cooperation meetings

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to Chinese President Xi Jinping in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Photo: Handout via Reuters
Kawala Xie
China-Russia relations will not be affected by “external factors”, Russian security chief Nikolai Patrushev has said, with both sides calling for “a more just world order”.

The Sino-Russian will of building a fairer world order was being opposed by “the political elites of the collective West, who seek to impose their own bogus values to the detriment of the interests of the peoples of the world”, Patrushev said, according to a Tass report.

This came as Patrushev visited China for scheduled security consultations, less than a week after Chinese President Xi Jinping met Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Uzbekistan.

China’s top diplomat and foreign policy supremo Yang Jiechi and Patrushev – secretary of the Russian Security Council and a close Putin ally – met in Fujian province on Monday for bilateral strategic security talks.
The high-level annual meetings came after Xi and Putin met in the Uzbek city of Samarkand on Thursday, marking the leaders’ first face-to-face talks since Russia invaded Ukraine – on what was President’s Xi’s first trip abroad since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out.

Their last meeting was in Beijing, just ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

“China is willing to work with Russia to fully implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state, continue to deepen the political mutual trust and strategic coordination between the two sides … and make greater contributions to safeguarding the common interests of the two countries and the security and stability of the world,” Yang said, according to a statement from Beijing’s foreign ministry.

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Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin speak in person for first time since Russia invaded Ukraine

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin speak in person for first time since Russia invaded Ukraine
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