Chinese President Xi Jinping stated on Tuesday (August 26, 2025) that China’s ties with Russia are the “most stable, mature and strategically significant” amongst main world powers, state media reported.
“During a meeting with Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of Russia’s Duma, or lower house of parliament, Mr. Xi hailed the countries’ relationship as being a “stable source of world peace”, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV stated.
“The two sides should… work together to safeguard the security and development interests of both countries, unite the Global South, uphold true multilateralism, and promote the international order towards greater fairness and justice,” Mr. Xi instructed Mr. Volodin in Beijing’s opulent Great Hall of the People.
Former socialist allies with a historical past of tempestuous ties, relations between Beijing and Moscow have deepened since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
China has by no means denounced the conflict nor referred to as for Moscow to withdraw its troops, and plenty of of Ukraine’s allies consider that Beijing has offered help to its huge northern neighbour.
China, for its half, insists it’s a impartial get together, usually calling for an finish to the preventing whereas additionally accusing Western nations of prolonging the battle by arming Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to go to China from this weekend.
He will attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the northern metropolis of Tianjin from August 31 to September 1, in addition to celebrations to mark the eightieth anniversary of the tip of World War II.
Mr. Putin can even maintain talks with Xi, with whom he has beforehand feted his supposedly deep private bond.
Mr. Xi instructed Mr. Putin in a cellphone name earlier this month that China was happy to see Moscow and Washington enhancing their relations, state media reported.
The Russian chief met with U.S. President Donald Trump for a high-stakes assembly in Alaska this month aimed toward ending the Ukraine conflict, however progress in direction of peace talks seems to have stalled since then.
