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“Developing China-Russia relations is a strategic choice made by both sides based on their respective core interests,” Xi Jinping, quoted by state television CCTV, told Valentina Matviyenko, president of the Russian Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Federation. Parliament in Russia.
“Thanks to the joint efforts of both sides, China-Russia relations have reached a healthy and stable pace of development. Cooperation in various fields has been steadily advancing, and the foundations of public opinion and friendship between the two societies have become stronger over generations,” Xi noted.
China is willing to continue to work with Russia to develop the comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation, “aimed at promoting the building of a prosperous, stable and just world,” he added.
The meeting with Matviyenko came on the heels of a four-day visit to Beijing by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who met several senior Chinese officials in Beijing but not Xi Jinping.
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