Meet President Putin, Xi Jinping: The International Situation Is Chaotic, But The Friendship Of China-Russia Continues

President Putin when accepting President Xi. (Source: Kristina Kormilitsyna/brics-russia2024.ru/Host Photo Agency via Kremlin)

JAKARTA - Chinese President Xi Jinping told Russian Presidn Vladimir Putin the international situation was hit by chaos, but Beijing's strategic partnership with Moscow was a force for stability amid the most significant changes seen in a century, when the two met in Russia.

"Currently, the world is experiencing an invisible change in a hundred years, the international situation is in chaos," President Xi told President Putin in Kazan, Russia, on the sidelines of the BRICS summit.

"But I firmly believe that the friendship between China and Russia will continue for generations, and the responsibility of big countries for their people will not change," he continued.

President Xi and President Putin in May promised a "newera" partnership between two of the United States' strongest rivals, which they consider an aggressive Cold War hegemony and sows chaos around the world.

President Putin called President Xi a "fit friend", saying partnerships with China are a force for stability in the world.

"Russia-China cooperation in world affairs is one of the main stabilization factors on the world stage," said President Putin.

"We intend to further improve coordination on all multilateral platforms to ensure global security and a fair world order," he said.

President Xi said cooperation in the BRICS group was "the most important platform for solidarity and cooperation between developing market countries and developing countries in the world today."

He said it was "a major force in driving the realization of equitable and regular global multipolarities, as well as an inclusive and tolerant economic globalization."

Russia, which is launching a war against NATO-backed Ukrainian forces and China, which is under pressure from its joint US efforts to counter its growing military and economic power, is increasingly finding the same geopolitical causes.

Russia and China, which opposed their opinion of being ashamed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the dominance of European colonialism for centuries in China, have sought to describe the West as a decadent and declining country.

Uncle Sam's country views China as its biggest competitor and Russia as a threat to its biggest nations, with President Joe Biden saying democracy is facing challenges from autocratic countries such as China and Russia.