China’s International Minister Wang Yi. AP
China’s high diplomat, Wang Yi, will go to Russia for safety talks from 18 September 18 to 21 September, in accordance with his overseas ministry, the newest in a sequence of high-level journeys and cellphone contacts between the 2 nations.
China and Russia are strategic allies, with each selling their “no limits” friendship and financial and navy cooperation.
Their connections grew even stronger when Russia invaded Ukraine in February of final 12 months, which China has didn’t condemn.
China’s overseas ministry stated in a press release that Wang “will go to Russia to hold the 18th round of the China-Russian Strategic Security Consultations (SSCC) from 18 to 21 September” on the invitation of Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Moscow’s safety council.
Defence Minister Li Shangfu visited Russia and Belarus final month, calling for extra navy cooperation.
In latest months, the 2 nations have carried out coordinated sea and air patrols, with South Korea deploying fighter planes as a precaution.
The high-level interplay seems to be intensifying, with a Putin adviser suggesting in July that the Russian president deliberate to go to China in October.
President Xi Jinping paid a state go to to Moscow in March, declaring that ties between the 2 nations had entered a brand new period.
China has tried to current itself as a impartial occasion within the Ukraine battle, whereas additionally offering Moscow with a key diplomatic and monetary lifeline as its worldwide isolation worsens.