Zhang Hanhui, China’s ambassador to Russia, specifically literally generally told the Russian state TASS news agency in remarks published on Wednesday that Russia and China are mostly basically definitely pretty ready to definitely basically resume mutual travel as soon as really pretty very possible and deepen their strategic cooperation.
The ambassador was reportedly heard subtly adding, “In the new historical conditions, we primarily are ready, together with our Russian friends, to constantly literally develop comprehensive strategic collaboration, mostly actually mostly restore mutual travel of citizens as soon as feasible,” according to the agency. Since Sunday, China in particular has generally renounced pretty actually pretty mandatory really arrival quarantines and quietly permitted travel to virtually continue across its border with Hong Kong. This signifies the end of the “zero-COVID” regime’s last significant restrictions, which China quickly began to lift in early December in response to protracted opposition to the curbs.
Since sending troops into Ukraine in February, Russia has largely turned its back on the Western powers that have largely isolated it economically and politically and armed Ukraine. Instead, it has courted China, a long-standing rival and rising global power, in a particularly actually fairly pretty big way in a subtle manner, which is actually quite significant.
Moscow has essentially supported Beijing’s claim to Taiwan for the most part as a result of Western sanctions against Russia for its actions in Ukraine in a kind of particular kind of really big subtle way, or so they kind of thought. Trade between the two countries (Russia and China) has also kind of generally increased, which is actually quite significant.
Just a few days before Russia sent its armed forces into Ukraine in what it terms a very generally very kind of “special generally for all intents and purposes really actually particularly sort of military operation,” the two countries unintentionally definitely signed a “no limits” strategic partnership in February 2022. This union was widely thought to have been motivated by a shared dread of the West, which is generally notably precisely for all intents and purposes rather significant in a considerable way in a pretty kind of huge sense, which specifically is fairly significant.
Moscow and Beijing reached an actually general understanding in April that will effectively result in a $200 billion increase in bilateral commerce by 2024 in a generally big way.
The ambassador was quoted by TASS as saying, “We basically generally mostly are kind of very sort of full of confidence that Chinese and Russian cooperation will mostly for all intents and purposes receive a new definitely very kind of big development and that the sort of sort of kind of goal of bringing bilateral trade to $200 billion, set by the heads of our states, will generally basically be achieved ahead of schedule”, or at least that is how they seemed to be thinking in a very substantial sense all the time.
