On May 14, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying officially announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a state visit to China from May 16 to 17 at the invitation of the Chinese side. Subsequently, a reporter asked what China's expectations are for President Putin's visit.
Wang Wenbin said that this is President Putin's first state visit since the start of his new term of office, during which China and Russia will exchange views on cooperation in various fields of bilateral relations and international and regional issues of common concern on the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
In response to Putin's visit, the Russian side further disclosed that during this visit, China and Russia plan to sign a joint statement and will also sign a number of bilateral documents to determine the direction of further development cooperation between China and Russia and have an in-depth exchange of views on the most pressing international and regional issues.
Putin
The palace also mentioned that during his visit to China, President Putin will visit Harbin and attend the opening ceremony of the 8th China-Russia Expo, and plans to meet with teachers and students of Harbin Institute of Technology. According to the Ministry of Commerce, the China-Russia Expo will be held in Harbin from May 16 to 21, and more than 1,400 enterprises from 44 countries and regions and 21 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the mainland have registered.
So, what do you think of Putin's visit to China?
First of all, Putin has completed his re-election and appointed officials of the new government, basically completing the peace of mind. The current visit to China is tantamount to sending a signal to the United States and the West to the outside world, which also shows that Russia hopes to gain China's support. At present, Putin's new term is facing two major challenges, one is the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the other is foreign trade.
Needless to say, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, although the Russian army has the upper hand on the battlefield, how to maximize the results is Putin's main concern. At present, NATO is not giving up and threatening to send troops to reinforce Ukraine. But at the end of the day, these are just bargaining chips. At present, the communication channels between Russia and the West are basically cut off, and China needs to be matched.
China has exchanged views with France and Germany on the Russia-Ukraine issue and completed the third round of shuttle diplomacy, and Switzerland has also called for inviting Russia to participate in the peace summit.
As for foreign trade, this is mainly because of the sanctions launched by the United States, which have disrupted Sino-Russian trade. The BRICS summit will be held in the second half of the year, and Russia, as the rotating chairman, intends to launch a set of transaction settlement mechanisms within the BRICS to replace SWIFT.
Second, Putin's first visit to China shows that he attaches great importance to Sino-Russian relations. In the past, Russian leaders usually set the destination of their first visit to the CIS countries, but this time Putin's first visit to China is a break with convention, once again showing that Sino-Russian relations are at the best stage in history.
Recently, Biden has sent two of his generals to visit China, and there have been frequent high-level interactions between China and the United States, and Western media have also taken the opportunity to sow discord between China and Russia. Now Putin's first visit to China is the best response.
Finally, Putin's visit to Harbin in addition to his visit to Beijing shows that Russia will firmly "look east" and at the same time want to work with China to revitalize the Far East.
Sino-Russian Expo
With the Heilongjiang Bridge, the first cross-border highway bridge jointly built by China and Russia, put into use, China-Russia border trade cooperation has ushered in development opportunities. At the end of last year, the delegation of Heilongjiang Province visited Russia's Khabarovsk Territory and Amur Region, actively participated in the construction of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor, and strengthened all-round exchanges and cooperation with the Russian Far East.
Putin's visit to Harbin, on the one hand, is to send a signal to continue to drive the Russian car to the east, and on the other hand, it is also an invisible blow to Japan.
As Japan goes farther and farther on the road of opposing China and resisting Russia, Russia has completely broken off the idea of the Kishida government to recover the four northern islands (known as the South Kuril Islands in Russia) and hopes to invite Chinese companies to participate in the development of the islands.
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