China, Russia, anti-US link likely to strengthen strategic cooperation on Taiwan issue and Ukraine war
After visiting Central Asia for the first time in 32 months, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Uzbekistan after Kazakhstan.
Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, said that Xi arrived in Uzbekistan that night after completing a state visit to Kazakhstan on the 14th (local time).
Xi will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, while holding a state visit to Uzbekistan on the 15th and 16th, including a bilateral summit with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
SCO was launched in 2001 led by China and Russia, and is a political, economic and security consultative body with eight member countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India, and Pakistan.
While Iran has effectively completed the formal accession process, the SCO will also discuss the issue of expanding its borders at this summit.
Xi will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will attend the SCO meeting side by side, on the 15th, the Russian side said.
The two leaders, meeting for the first time since the start of the Ukraine War, are expected to strengthen their will for strategic cooperation with anti-US as a link in the background of the prolonged Ukrainian war, the intensification of the US-China conflict over Taiwan, and the strengthening of US military and economic checks in China. .
In particular, by directly or indirectly supporting each other’s positions on the Ukraine war and the Taiwan issue, it is expected that the United States, which is on the other side of the two issues, will be checked.
This is the first face-to-face meeting between the leaders of China and Russia in more than seven months since the meeting held in Beijing on the opening day of the Beijing Winter Olympics in early February.
/yunhap news