Putin's visit to enhance China-Russia cooperation: expert

[aimarraul]

Putin's visit to enhance China-Russia cooperation: expert

(Xinhua)10:12, October 10, 2011 MOSCOW, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to China would further boost the two countries' cooperation in both bilateral and global issues, a Russian expert has said.

At the invitation of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Putin will pay an official visit to China on Tuesday and Wednesday and attend the 16th regular meeting between the two countries' premiers.

President Hu Jintao and other Chinese leaders will meet Putin to discuss bilateral relations and international and regional issues of common concern.

Sergei Luzyanin, deputy director of the Far East Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, told Xinhua in a recent interview that Putin's visit would first of all enhance the two nations' interaction in world issues.

"They would discuss global issues, including the situation in the Middle East. Moscow and Beijing have a similar approach to the situation in Syria," Luzyanin said.

"They secured the stabilization there by vetoing UN resolutions on Syria and preventing NATO from intervening," Luzyanin said.

Besides cooperation in the UN Security Council, Russia and China have developed important interactions within BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the G20, the expert said.

"Russia and China are equally concerned about the threats from Afghanistan such as drug trafficking and the possible overflowing of instability to Central Asian countries," he said.

The scholar also said both Moscow and Beijing are preparing for a possible second wave of the financial crisis that looms over Europe.

"The first strike of the crisis in 2009 left Russia and China with different experience," he said.

Russia and China have learnt from that experience how important the flexibility of financial regulations was and both began experiments to avoid depending too much on the volatile U.S. dollar.

"These let us believe Russia and China won't be the passive observers of the second wave of the financial crisis should it really come," Luzyanin said.

As for bilateral ties, Luzyanin said the China-Russia comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership has been currently at its best time ever, which allows the two countries to conduct various joint projects ranging from technical to cultural areas.

Luzyanin said the reciprocal years of tourism between Russia and China in 2012 and 2013 will also help strengthen bilateral ties, as tourism plays not only a cultural but an ever increasing economic role.

"In the last three years, as the number of Russian visitors to China has amounted to over 2 million, a new economic phenomenon has appeared -- some Russian business started to mushroom in China in the form of joint ventures or independent small-sized companies. I think tourism inevitably contributes to the other areas of economy," the Russian pundit said.

Luzyanin said Putin will also touch upon Russia-China trade during his visit.

Bilateral trade has been growing. The two countries have planned to further expand annual bilateral trade to 100 billion dollars in the next three years from 60 billion U.S. dollars in 2011. For Russia, it has also been trying to diversity its exports to China.

Besides trade, Putin is expected to use the visit to woo more Chinese investment.

"Putin might discuss with his Chinese hosts about cooperation on gas and oil projects, aviation, space exploration, hi-tech industry, as well as the program of co-development of Russia's Far East and China's northeast regions," the expert predicts.

Putin's visit to enhance China-Russia cooperation: expert - People's Daily Online

 

[houshanghai]

Beijing and Moscow agree to deepen trust and links

Teddy Ng in Beijing
Oct 13, 2011

Vladimir Putin is greeted by President Hu Jintao in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday.

Beijing and Moscow vowed yesterday to deepen mutual political trust and enhance strategic partnerships, signalling that the two powers may get closer at the United Nations, as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ended his two-day China visit.

Putin, on his first overseas trip since announcing last month that he plans to serve again as Russian president, played up co-operation with China, saying the Sino-Russian relationship was at an all-time high, while describing the global dominance of the US dollar as "parasitic".

He said in his meetings with President Hu Jintao and National People's Congress chairman Wu Bangguo yesterday that developing ties with China was the priority for Russia's foreign affairs.

"Russia is willing to work hard with China to further enhance mutual strategic trust, maintain frequent high-level exchanges and deepen co-operation in various fields to push the development of the Sino-Russian strategic partnership," he said.

Hu made a similar pledge at the meeting, and said he believed a series of documents signed by the two countries on Tuesday would strengthen bilateral ties.

In an interview with Xinhua and China Central Television, Putin said bilateral ties had reached a historic peak and that the two countries could help safeguard each other's legitimate rights. He criticised the US economy, saying: "The US is not a parasite for the world economy, but the US dollar's monopoly is a parasite." He said the comment was offered constructively, and there was a need to find a common solution to the problem. China and Russia infuriated the West last week by blocking a United Nations Security Council resolution against Syria's crackdown on protesters.

In a joint communique released after the visit, the two countries pledged to improve co-operation when handling international affairs in addition to strengthening cultural exchanges. "Both sides stress that the UN, with its Security Council, should play a core role in international affairs," the statement said. They said they would continue efforts to bring about a multi-polar world.

They will also strengthen co-ordination on energy and food security and other global issues within the framework of the UN, the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation and the five-country BRICS bloc, which also includes Brazil, India and South Africa. The statement said a timetable for reforming the UN Security Council should not be set without the support of the majority of UN members.

The two sides signed a series of documents boosting economic and trade ties, and agreed on Tuesday to co-operate on energy development, but a deal that will see Russia supply 68 billion cubic metres of natural gas to China each year could not be finalised because of a pricing dispute.

teddy.ng@scmp.com

Copyright (c) 2011. South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved.

 

[houshanghai]

China no threat to Russia: Putin

In his interview, which took place just days after his visit to China, Putin said “China is certainly one of our most serious partners, which we can legitimately without any exaggeration consider and name a strategic partner.”

Russia and China: bilateral relations


China has no plans of seeking global leadership, the country’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said on Tuesday, pointing to a wrong interpretation by some media outlets of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s remarks about Russian-Chinese relations.
Some media quoted Putin as saying in his interview with three Russian federal TV channels broadcast on Monday that “Russia, unlike China, is not seeking global leadership.”
“We noticed that the media reports differ from the original text of the interview,” the spokesman said. “In fact, Putin stressed that China is Russia’s strategic partner and that he was satisfied with [our] cooperation.”
“China has neither the intention, nor the energy to struggle for global leadership,” he added.
In his interview, which took place just days after his visit to China, Putin said “China is certainly one of our most serious partners, which we can legitimately without any exaggeration consider and name a strategic partner.”
When asked by the director general of the NTV channel whether China could be viewed as a “threat” to Russia, Putin said: “I told those who have been trying to frighten us with the Chinese threat (those are mainly our Western partners) many times: in the modern world, no matter how attractive East Siberian and Far Eastern mineral resources are, the main struggle is not for them. The main struggle is for global leadership, and we are not going to argue with China here. China has other competitors here. Let them deal with this themselves.”
“For us, China is a partner, a reliable partner,” he went on. “And we see the readiness and willingness of the Chinese leadership and Chinese people to build friendly, neighborly relations with us and look for compromises on the most acute issues.”

 

[khanz4996]

wow thats nice good going china keep it up.even russia is getting closer

 

[epsilon]

ppl say there are tensions between RUS and CHN, whole lot of thanks to khrushchev and mao.... Tensions started at their regime. Now things are better..

 

[Beast]

wow thats nice good going china keep it up.even russia is getting closer

Those who think Russia will stop re-export RD-93 engine from China to PAF are dreaming....

 

[lem34]

Peace and freedom loving people around the world should welcome this Russian Chinese cooperation

 

[doidoi2]

Russia is one of the most important partners for China in the 21st century.

Not only are the geopolitical interests of both nations aligned, but economically they're almost the perfect complement. I fully expect the cooperation to continue in the near future.

 

[hoangsa]

Russian want to keep close with China to balance power with NATO and US. But Russian also don't want China to show off too much in South East Asian Sea...Russian either don't want US to be a nice brother of ASEAN when this number 1 powerful nation trying to stopping bully actions of China by this way or that way. No nation want China to occupy the whole ASEAN Sea. That is the point.

Lastest news : Russian aims to hold military exercise with Philippine in near future.

 

[oct605032048]

What is ASEAN sea? You don't even know whether it's West Philipine Sea, East Viet Sea or North Brunei Sea.LOL.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

What is ASEAN sea? You don't even know whether it's West Philipine Sea, East Viet Sea or North Brunei Sea.LOL.

Best to keep it South China Sea. We will shoulder the burden of protecting freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, because freedom isn't free.