President Xi Jinping of China is set to visit Russia in 2025, with bilateral events still under preparation, said Igor Morgulov, Russia’s ambassador in Beijing, to Russian state-run media RIA on Friday.
When Russia’s president Vladimir Putin was visiting China in 2022, he proclaimed a “no limits” partnership between both countries days before he declared war on Ukraine.
Putin’s last visit to China was in May 2024, after his landslide re-election. He said he welcomed a new era of relationship built upon anti-U.S. policy.
Morgulov also said that China, which has abstained from denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, sees the conflict as a struggle against the same challenge posed by the U.S. and its allies’ pressure on China in the Asia-Pacific region.
Morgulov claimed that NATO is preparing to move its military assets into the region. He further reiterated that Russia and China need to jointly respond to the U.S. policy with a “dual counter-action” to the West’s “dual deterrence”
China has been working with Brazil to push forward a peace plan to end the Russo-Ukrainian war, with Russia expressing support for the proposals. Ukraine also proposed its own plans to end the war, which also include a petition for NATO membership, and has dismissed the China-Brazil proposal as leaning toward the Kremlin’s interest.
