Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held what is becoming an annual end-of-year video call on Friday to consolidate their alliance and celebrate record levels of trade and other cooperation.
In their publications about the video meeting the Kremlin and the Chinese Foreign Ministry both emphasized trade cooperation and geopolitical opposition to America and the greater West. The Kremlin, which published a partial transcript of Xi and Putin’s conversation, revealed that Putin invited Xi to visit Russia in the spring.
Russia first invaded and colonized part of Ukraine, Crimea, in 2014. In February, Putin announced a “special operation” meant to remove democratically elected President Volodymyr Zelensky and eradicate alleged “Nazis” in the Ukrainian government. Zelensky, who is Jewish,to the Nazi accusations by noting his family’s history fighting Nazis in World War II and expressing outrage at the accusation.
The Kremlin published a smaller snippet of Xi’s remarks in response that included an invitation to “build up strategic cooperation with Russia, providing each other with development opportunities and remaining global partners for the benefit of our countries and in the interests of stability in the entire world.” Xi did not appear in the transcript as published to respond to the invitation to Moscow.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to each other during their meeting in Beijing, China, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022.
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