MOSCOW, September 26. /TASS/. The leaders of China and Russia can see through Western countries’ attempts to drive a wedge between Beijing and Moscow and won’t take the bait, Chairman of the Standing Committee of China’s National People's Congress Li Zhanshu said at a meeting with Speaker of Russia’s State Duma (the lower house of parliament) Vyacheslav Volodin on Thursday.
"We can see clearly that the United States and the West are trying to drive a wedge between China and Russia," he said.
"However, our leaders can see through their attempts. Fortunately, we haven’t taken their [Western countries’] bait," Li Zhanshu added.
The West's interference in China’s and Russia’s internal affairs
The West directly views China and Russia as strategic rivals and is intensifying its interference in the internal affairs of these countries, Li Zhanshu told the meeting with his Russian colleague on Thursday.
"You know that the West led by the United States has been increasing pressure, in particular, on China and Russia lately amid intensive changes in the world and in the region. They directly view our countries as strategic rivals and are exercising double containment against our countries and intensifying meddling in our internal affairs. They are looking for any suitable pretexts to provoke various sorts of unrest in our country," China’s top legislator stressed.
"That is why, the main aim of my visit is, of course, to discuss with Russian colleagues what we can do through our legislative activity, through our cooperation to prevent the West’s attempts to stage ‘color revolutions’ and meddle in our internal affairs," Zhanshu said.