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China connected Monday (December 8, 2025) reacted positively to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sojourn to India, framing the 3 countries arsenic an important portion of the Global South and said dependable trilateral ties are conducive to determination and planetary bid and stability, too their ain nationalist interests.
“China, Russia and India are emerging economies and important members of the Global South,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told a media briefing successful Beijing, reacting for the archetypal clip to Mr. Putin’s high-profile sojourn to New Delhi past week and his interactions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Mr. Guo said that the 3 countries maintaining dependable relations are not lone successful enactment with their ain interests but besides conducive to determination and planetary peace, security, stableness and prosperity.
Mr. Putin's sojourn was watched present closely, considering Beijing’s adjacent and beardown ties with Moscow.
Responding to a question astir Mr. Putin’s comments astir New Delhi and Beijing up of his visit, Mr. Guo said that China stands acceptable to enactment with Russia and India to proceed promoting the improvement of bilateral relations.
In an interrogation up of his visit, Mr. Putin had said, “India and China are our closest friends — we treasure that narration deeply.”
On India-China relations — presently connected a way of normalisation aft the Eastern Ladakh confrontation which resulted successful a frost successful ties from 2020 until past twelvemonth — Mr. Guo said China wants to beforehand sustained and beardown ties with New Delhi with a semipermanent perspective.
China stands acceptable to enactment with India to presumption and grip bilateral relations from a strategical tallness and a semipermanent perspective, beforehand sustained, beardown and dependable improvement of ties to payment the 2 countries and their peoples, and marque a owed publication to bid and prosperity successful Asia and beyond, helium said.
Besides terming New Delhi and Beijing arsenic adjacent friends of Moscow, Mr. Putin, successful the interrogation with an Indian quality channel, besides expressed assurance that the leaderships of India and China are committed to uncovering solutions to their issues, and Russia has “no right” to interfere successful their bilateral affairs.
Chinese authoritative media highlighted Mr. Putin’s comments connected India-China relations.
The state-run Xinhua quality bureau carried his remarks refuting U.S. accusations implicit India's purchases of Russian oil.
For its part, China tops the database of countries purchasing Russian lipid and gas, and rejected U.S. calls to halt the imports to penalise Moscow for continuing its warfare connected Ukraine.
Mr. Putin visited India from December 4-5. This was his archetypal sojourn to India since 2021.
During his visit, a big of agreements were signed to boost commercialized and economical ties betwixt the 2 countries. Both sides besides worked retired an Economic Cooperation Programme to summation commercialized measurement to $100 cardinal by 2030.
