BEIJING, December 20. /TASS/. Cooperation between Moscow and Beijing contributes to the establishment of a fairer world order and global security, Chinese political analysts told the daily Global Times while commenting on Russian President Vladimir Putin's vision of Russia-China relations.
"China and Russia are two permanent members of the UN Security Council, so their political mutual trust and strategic coordination at such a crucial period are significant for not only the two countries but also global security and world peace, as well as well as the development of international order," Wang Xiaoquan, an expert with the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the daily.
Sun Xiuwen, an associate professor at the Institute for Central Asian Studies at Lanzhou University, is quoted by the periodical as saying that China and Russia share a common stance "on issues such as opposing external interference, safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and promoting fairness and justice in the international order, which adds strategic depth to the relationship between the two countries."
"China and Russia both oppose US unipolar hegemony and advocate for a just and reasonable transformation of the international order, a stance that aligns with the needs of most developing countries," said Cui Heng, a scholar from the Shanghai-based China National Institute for SCO International Exchange and Judicial Cooperation. He considers the steady development of trade turnover between the two countries to be quite natural "due to the strong economic complementarity between the two countries."
On December 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a combined year-end question-and-answer session and press conference that the level and quality of relations between Russia and China had become unprecedented thanks to mutual trust between Moscow and Beijing.