China has said that
mutual political trust with Russia has continued to deepen after
Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu visited the country this week
and met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
China is willing to work with Russia to implement their
strategic partnership and promote further progress in their
relationship, the foreign ministry also said in its statement on Saturday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir
Putin announced a strategic partnership in Moscow a year ago
aimed at countering the influence of the United States and which
they said would have no “forbidden” areas of cooperation.
Ma also met with Russia’s Deputy Foreign Ministers Andrey
Rudenko and Sergey Vershinin during his February 2-3 visit, the
statement said.
During his meetings, he exchanged views on
bilateral and multilateral cooperation as well as international
and regional issues of common concern, it added.
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‘Spy balloon’?
The statement comes on the heels of heightened tension
between China and the United States after the flight of a
Chinese balloon over US airspace.
Washington has described it
as a spy balloon while China says it is an airship used for
civilian meteorological and other scientific purposes.
The uproar has led to the postponement of a visit to China
by Secretary of State Antony Blinken that had been expected to
start on Friday.
The foreign ministry statement about Ma’s visit did not
mention Ukraine, where Russia has waged a military operation for
nearly a year.
China has refrained from condemning it or calling
it an “invasion”.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov said on Thursday that Moscow’s relations with China had no limits and, despite not being a formal military alliance, were of a much higher and broader nature.
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