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Zhao Ziwen

China and Russia renewed their commitment to close ties in talks in Beijing on Wednesday between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Andrey Rudenko, Russia’s deputy foreign minister.
The Chinese foreign ministry said the two diplomats discussed the war in Ukraine but did not give details of the conversation.
Instead, the ministry focused on broader bilateral relations.
Wang said China-Russia relations had “an inevitable historical logic and strong endogenous momentum”, and were not subject to the changed situation on the world stage or interference by any third party.
Meanwhile, North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui was in Moscow meeting her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.
Two days earlier, Rudenko held talks with Liu Xiaoming, China’s special representative for Korean peninsula affairs.
According to Russia’s foreign ministry, the two expressed concerns over the escalation of tensions in the region, blaming the build-up of military activity by the United States and its allies for frictions.
The ministry said Liu and Rudenko agreed to continue close coordination to “create a fair and indivisible security system” on the Korean peninsula, saying that Washington and its allies should “eliminate the risks of a large-scale armed conflict”.


The meetings came amid reports from the US and its allies that North Korea is sending more than 12,000 troops to Russia for the Ukraine war, a move that Seoul, Washington and Kyiv says would escalate tensions on the peninsula and mark an expansion of the Ukraine conflict.
Tensions between Pyongyang and Seoul have been running high in recent months.
In one of the latest clashes, North Korea accused South Korea of sending drones over Pyongyang three times, an accusation Seoul denied.
Beijing has close ties with both Moscow and Pyongyang but has remained silent on whether it believes North Korean troops are in Russia.
China and Russia have maintained strong economic relations since the start of the Ukraine war in 2022, and the presidents of the two countries have met seven times since the invasion.
They met most recently on the sidelines of the Brics summit in Kazan, Russia, last week, the third face-to-face meeting between the two leaders this year.
During that meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping said he firmly believed that “the deep friendship between China and Russia for generations will not change”.


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Russian deputy foreign minister Andrey Rudenko and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hold talks in Beijing on Wednesday. Photo: Xinhua

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Rudenko discusses the war in Ukraine and the Korean peninsula with Chinese officials but authorities offer no details


Rudenko discusses the war in Ukraine and the Korean peninsula with Chinese officials but authorities offer no details.
