Reality Refutes McMaster's Words on China Abandoning Russia - Kremlin

© AFP 2023 / HOW HWEE YOUNGThe Russian and Chinese national flags are seen on the table as Russia's President Vladimir Putin (back L) and his China's President Xi Jinping (back R) stand during a signing ceremony at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on November 9, 2014.
The Russian and Chinese national flags are seen on the table as Russia's President Vladimir Putin (back L) and his China's President Xi Jinping (back R) stand during a signing ceremony at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on November 9, 2014. - Sputnik International
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Intensive contacts between Moscow and Beijing suggest that the words by US national security adviser Herbert McMaster on China "distancing" from Russia are not true, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — McMaster told ABC News last week that he thinks "President Xi was courageous in distancing himself from the Russians, isolating really the Russians and the Bolivians."

"The fact that representatives of the highest Chinese leadership visit Moscow weekly, and are holding talks here, including meeting with President [Vladimir] Putin… all these meetings also have an independent significance… Taking into account such an intensive schedule of exchanges and visits, it can be probably confidently said that such an analysis does not quite reflect the reality," Peskov told reporters.

Last June, Putin hailed partnership between Moscow and Beijing and described Xi Jinping as a very good friend and a reliable partner. Russia-China ties started developing more intensively after the West had imposed sanctions on Russia on the pretext of the Donbass war and Crimea's choice to re-join its historic motherland.

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