Xi & Putin Outline Shared Vision for Multipolarity

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Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin held talks in Beijing on Wednesday. In this special edition, I am pre-empting what will be the focus of tomorrow’s People’s Daily, by doing a deep-dive into the readouts and the outcomes from the summit.The Chinese readout of the Xi-Putin meeting says that the two leaders first held talks in a restricted-format and then in an expanded format.“Xi Jinping pointed out that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the China-Russia strategic cooperative partnership and the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Good-Neighbourliness and Friendly Cooperation Between China and Russia. By signing the treaty, China and Russia established in legal form the institutional foundation for long-term good-neighbourly friendship and comprehensive strategic coordination, enabling China-Russia relations to achieve leapfrog development. China-Russia relations have reached today’s height step by step because both sides have continuously deepened political mutual trust and strategic coordination with the perseverance of ‘standing firm amid a thousand grindings and ten thousand strikes’, expanded cooperation in various fields with the spirit of ‘ascending yet another storey’, and defended international fairness and justice and promoted the building of a community with a shared future for mankind with the courage of ‘remaining calm and composed as swirling clouds and turbulent winds pass by’. Under the current international situation, as permanent members of the UN Security Council and major world powers, China and Russia should focus on l…