Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Russia on Monday for a state visit, a TASS correspondent reported.
The Chinese leader's plane landed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport around 12:59 Moscow time.
According to TASS, the Chinese Hongqi (Red Banner) car waits for the country’s president outside the airport.
Xi Jinping's state visit to Russia will last from March 20 to 22. The Russian Federation is the first country the Chinese leader has visited since his March 10 reelection to a third term by the National People's Congress (parliament). According to diplomatic protocol, state visit is the highest in the gradation of foreign visits.
Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told reporters that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will hold face-to-face talks in the Kremlin on Monday afternoon. The talks will continue on March 21, when the leaders will be joined by members of delegations.
In addition, Xi Jinping is scheduled to meet with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Tuesday morning. Ushakov also noted that the visit would be strictly a business visit, "there will be no additional protocol stuff, the main thing is negotiations, negotiations and negotiations."
China ready to uphold UN-centric international system together with Russia — Xi
China, together with Russia, is determined to uphold the UN-centric international system in today's troubled world and to safeguard a world order based on international law, Chinese President Xi Jinping said upon his arrival in Moscow on Monday.
"In a troubled world, China is ready to act in concert with Russia to firmly uphold the UN-centric international system, safeguard the world order based on international law and the fundamental norms of international relations relying on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, support true multilateralism, promote multipolarity in the world, democratize international relations and promote global governance on a more just and rational track," Xi said.
China and Russia, as major powers and permanent members of the UN Security Council, play an important role in international affairs, he pointed out.
Xi expects that during the visit he will have a detailed exchange of views with Russian President Vladimir Putin on bilateral relations and major regional and international topics of mutual interest, as well as outline a plan for strategic interaction and practical cooperation.
"I am confident that the visit will be fruitful and give new impetus to the healthy and stable development of China-Russia relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation in a new era," Xi stressed.
Xi Jinping arrived on Monday on a state visit to Russia. His plane landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport Monday afternoon.
Xi Jinping will stay in Russia from March 20-22. The two leaders are expected to discuss the conflict in Ukraine among other topics of joint interest. Chinese president said in an article for RIA Novosti and Rossiyskaya Gazeta that his upcoming trip to Russia would be aimed at strengthening peace and friendship between the two countries, and he expressed his willingness to work on new plans to develop the bilateral ties together with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Xi Expects to Discuss Important Regional, Int'l Topics of Mutual Interest With Putin
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday that he expects to discuss important regional and international issues of mutual interest during with talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"I expect that during the visit, I will thoroughly exchange views with president Vladimir Putin on issues of bilateral relations and important regional and international topics of mutual interest, and outline a plan for developing strategic interaction and practical cooperation," Xi said upon his arrival in Moscow.
"I am confident that the visit will be fruitful and will give a new impetus to the healthy and stable development of China-Russia relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation in a new era," Xi said.
Facts About Putin-Xi Meeting in Moscow
- Presidents Xi and Putin will hold a face-to-face conversation over an informal lunch on 20 March, followed by negotiations on 21 March;
- This is Xi's first foreign trip since being re-elected;
- Moscow and Beijing are satisfied with the state of bilateral relations, this is a strategic interaction of partners;
- Personal contacts between Putin and Xi are of trusting nature – in total, the leaders have met about 40 times;
- Both parties will discuss the conflict in Ukraine, as well as will issues of military and technical cooperation
Xi Jinping’s ‘Landmark’ Visit to Moscow Shows US Plan to Isolate Russia ‘Backfired Spectacularly
The three-day state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Russia at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin bespeaks the point that attempts by the West to isolate Moscow in light of the special military operation in Ukraine are failing, said Dr. Gerald Horne, professor of history at the University of Houston, Texas.
The visit of Chinese leader Xi Jinping to Russia is potentially a landmark one, author and historian Dr. Gerald Horne told Sputnik. It is glaring proof of the fact that no matter how vehemently Washington sought to isolate Russia, its plans backfired, he added.
The three-day visit of China’s president at the invitation of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is taking place on March 20-22, 2023. This is a year that historians of the future may group with other “bookmarks of an era,” like 1989 and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the researcher stated. The dissolution of the USSR in 1989 marked the start of an era of so-called unipolarity, when the United States was left as the so-called sole remaining superpower, Gerald Horne underscored.
“2023 will mark what has been in motion for years now, which is multipolarity. But perhaps even more than multipolarity, we see China in the passing lane. I think also that this visit bespeaks the point that the attempt to isolate Moscow in light of the special military operation in Ukraine is not going very well,” the American history professor said.
He went on to point out the widely-known fact that in 2022, Russia’s economic growth in many ways outstripped, for example, the economic growth of Britain, which has been “at the tip of the spear with regard to opposing this special military operation.”
The current developments are, to a great degree, the result of Washington’s “maniacal obsession” with Moscow, the researcher emphasized.
Half a century ago, there was a drive for major US corporations to embark on massive direct foreign investment in the People's Republic of China, he noted.
“That's what led to the entente with China over a half century ago… Because of a desire to encircle the Soviet Union, the United States cut a deal with China. But now that deal obviously has backfired in a spectacular fashion. And what's even more remarkable is that rather than seeking to pivot, to try to somehow slow down this economic juggernaut in China, you see US imperialism bogged down once again with regard to confronting Moscow.”
China has come out as the beneficiary, the researcher pointed out. Beijing has continued boosting its growing economic, military, and diplomatic potential, despite the US ramping up its military deployments and diplomatic engagement with Asian partners to try to hem in China, both militarily and diplomatically. Meanwhile, all of the US-led attempts to isolate Russia failed.
As for Washington, the Biden administration is overestimating its strength if it believes that it can take on both Moscow and Beijing as "threats" simultaneously, the historian suggested. European states are showing more foresight, according to Dr. Gerald Horne. Case in point is how German Chancellor Olaf Scholz travelled to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in November 2022 – the first European leader to do so in three years. French President Emmanuel Macron is also set to visit China in April.
But Washington, whose dominating foreign policy thrust has been to isolate Russia, is clearly in some ways going to find itself isolated, Dr. Gerald Horne of Houston University stressed.
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