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📄Article by Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation (December 13, 2024)
National identity and political choice on the example of Russia and China
✍️ The people of Russia and China are united by the bonds of friendship and neighbourliness based on deep historical traditions. In 2024, we marked 75 years of our diplomatic relations and the 75th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. Despite the fundamental shifts underway in the world due to the rise of a multipolar world, some factors have not changed for decades. Russia and China remain responsible for the present and future of humanity. We will continue working together to implement this challenging mission, settling the problems we inherited from the past, which I would like to dwell on in greater detail.
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🔹 The Western civilisation has always tried to impose its will on external players throughout its history. Its most effective method was not inflicting a direct military defeat on them, which Europe could seldom accomplish due to the permanent shortage of material and human resources. It employed a much simpler strategy of destroying the existing power structures from within and by proxy. The Western world tried to prevent people from joining forces to repel the enemy, and to incite rivalry and dissent among them. <...> The ultimate form of such policy is the divide et impera – divide and rule – principle.
🔹 The current-day Anglo-Saxon powers have long devised and implemented strategies to encourage separatism for all those who oppose their aggressive meddling in the internal affairs of states worldwide.
🔹 Western forces are acting against us according to the same hypocritical principle of “divide et impera.” Their establishments and Ukrainian ideologues are persistently attempting to apply the Taiwanese, Hong Kong, and other experiences (including Manchukuo) in Ukraine. Their aim is to demonstrate that Russians and Ukrainians are as disparate as possible, to sever Ukraine from Russia, to sow discord, and to create ethnic divisions.
🔹Russians and Ukrainians are one people. Historical attempts to drive a wedge between us are utterly unfounded and criminal. All those Vygovskys, Mazepas, Skoropadskys, and Banderas, throughout different eras, found themselves dashed against the pan-Russian wall. It will be no different now.
🔹 In addition to the unfettered supply of arms to Taiwan, there is a deliberate tendency to turn a blind eye to the efforts of the Taiwanese administration to “de-Sinicise” and “Taiwanise” the island. This is achieved through the implementation of policies aimed at fostering the so-called Taiwanese identity or Taiwanese consciousness – encouraging the self-identification of its inhabitants as “some kind of Taiwanese detached from their roots” and not Chinese.
🔹 The classical principle of Western 'civilisers', “divide et impera,” inflicts untold suffering and hardship across the globe, serving as a source of numerous ethnic and socio-cultural conflicts, as well as pervasive economic inequality. This was true in the past, and it remains so today.
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✉️ President of Russia Vladimir Putinextended his greetings to President of China Xi Jinping on the 76th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China(October 1, 2025)
✍️ The message reads, in part:
Your country continues to move confidently along the path of socioeconomic, scientific and technological development, consistently strengthening its positions on the world stage and making a substantial contribution to addressing the key issues on the global agenda.
Russian-Chinese relations have reached an unprecedented level, as confirmed by our recent substantive and constructive meetings in Tianjin and Beijing.
🤝 I am confident that the systematic implementation of our agreements will further strengthen our comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction and will create conditions for the implementation of our new ambitious joint projects in various fields.
This undoubtedly meets the fundamental interests of the friendly peoples of Russia and China and is aligned with the goal of building a fair and democratic multipolar world.
My dear Friend, I wholeheartedly wish you good health, well-being and success in your public service and party activities. I also wish happiness and prosperity to all citizens of China.
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🇷🇺🇨🇳 President of Russia Vladimir Putinmet with Vice President of the People's Republic of China Han Zheng at the Far Eastern Federal University.
💬President Putin: In October 2024, we will mark 75 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries. That event had a profound impact on our bilateral relations and on development of modern China and our interstate ties.
As per our agreement, we hope to see President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping at the upcoming BRICS summit. I propose holding a bilateral meeting during that event.
Thanks to our joint efforts, relations between China and Russia have reached an unprecedented level. We attach great importance to interregional cooperation. I hope that during our meeting today and our work at the Eastern Economic Forum tomorrow, we will have the opportunity to explore and identify new areas for cooperation.
We are grateful to the President of the People’s Republic of China for sending such a substantial delegation to this forum. I would like to thank you for leading this delegation and for taking part in our joint work.
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We are establishing subsidiaries of Russia’s leading world-class museums, theatres and musical venues here. I know that some performers who are popular with Chinese audiences have visited China many times, and have recently been on another tour. I hope that Vladivostok will also become a prominent hub for cultural exchanges and attract tourists from Russia, from all over the world and especially from China, which is our friend.
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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a meeting with Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee Wang Yi
📍 Jakarta, July 13, 2023
💬 The extensive and wide-ranging agenda of the Russia-China dialogue requires coordinating our positions regularly, which makes this meeting today rather timely.
We support ASEAN’s determination to maintain its constructive role in the Asia-Pacific region and support ASEAN-centric mechanisms. Along with China, we are committed to strengthening them. We presented all these approaches to Foreign Minister of Indonesia and ASEAN Chair Retno Marsudi yesterday. We will continue to promote this principled line in the course of the upcoming events in Jakarta, the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum. I look forward to a productive dialogue.
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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee Wang Yi hold a meeting in Jakarta
📍Jakarta, July 13
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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of China Qin Gang met "on the sidelines" of the G20 Ministerial
📍New Delhi, March 2
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🇷🇺🇨🇳📞 On January 9, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrovspoke over the phone with Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China Qin Gang.
The Russian Minister congratulated his Chinese colleague on his recent appointment and wished him success in this responsible position.
The two officials discussed topical matters on the bilateral, global and regional agendas. They rejected the policy of the United States and its satellites to establish a hegemony in global affairs, which prompts the West to provoke confrontation with Russia and China, interfere in their domestic affairs, and attempts to constrain the development of the two countries through sanctions and other illegitimate methods.
The ministers went on to state that Moscow and Beijing were united in their approaches to fundamental matters on the global development agenda. They gave a positive assessment of the constructive dialogue and high level of bilateral coordination in the United Nations, BRICS, the SCO, within the Group of Twenty, as well as at ASEAN cooperation platforms and other formats, with all these efforts fully in line with the trust-based partnership between the two countries.
Sergey Lavrov invited Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China Qin Gang to visit Russia at a convenient time.
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🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳 On August 5, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Wang Yi on the sidelines of ASEAN, ARF, and EAS events in Phnom Penh.
☝️ The two ministers expressed their satisfaction with the momentum Russia and China have generated in promoting their relations, which have been immune to external developments. They noted the consistency with which the two countries have been stepping up their practical cooperation and foreign policy coordination in keeping with the agreements reached by their respective heads of state.
🤝 During the conversation, the two ministers had a detailed exchange of views on bilateral interactions within ASEAN, ARF, and EAS formats, emphasising the need to support the security architecture with ASEAN at its core in light of proactive efforts by the United States and its satellites to build exclusive bloc-based structures in the Asia-Pacific Region.
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