by HAOYU ZHANG
BEIJING – CHINA and Russia have been urged to strengthen mutual support within multilateral frameworks aimed at safeguarding development and security interests for the Global South.
Chinese President Xi Jinping made the announcement on Tuesday when he welcomed Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov in the Chinese capital, Beijing.
President Xi also called upon countries of the Global South to push the international order toward a more just and equitable direction.
Before meeting the Russian top diplomat, president Xi held a general meeting with the foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
The Russian foreign minister touched down in Beijing on 13th July on official duty upon which he participated in a meeting of the SCO Foreign Ministers Council, which is in progress in the city of Tianjin.
President Xi pointed out that it is so important for both Russia and China to support each other in steering the development direction of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in order to inject new momentum into the organisation to ensure their strategic platform remains stronger.
Lavrov also conveyed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sincere greetings to President Xi in a move widely viewed as strengthening cooperation between the two world superpowers from the global south.
Both Russia and China, including the BRICS nations, face economic threats, sanctions and intimidation from the increasingly crumbling United States’ economy.
The US, which sponsors many unprovoked wars across the world, has a ballooning debt exceeding $37 trillion.
The US has to date poured $183 billion to sponsor Ukraine’s proxy war against Russia.
BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising ten countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates that seek to establish deeper ties between member nations and cooperate on economic expansion, including trade.
– CAJ News
