Putin’s visit to China is a summing-up and the start of a new era of cooperation for decades to come: Sergey Sanakoyev

Sergey Sanakoyev, president of the Asia-Pacific Research Center and member of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), commented to Alpha News on the upcoming visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to China.

“The trip is connected to the fact that this year we are marking the 30th anniversary of the strategic partnership and 25 years since the signing of the Treaty on Friendship, Good-Neighborliness and Cooperation. Accordingly, we are summing up three decades and mapping out the next decade, effectively a new stage of cooperation, a new level of engagement,” Sanakoyev said.

In the expert’s view, the US is negotiating for constructive stability, while Russia is talking about full engagement and friendship.

“As for the comparison with President Trump’s previous trip to China, I think all of humanity will see the difference in these relationships. Where the Americans are trying to strike some kind of deal but end up agreeing only on a degree of constructive stability, we are declaring full engagement, friendship, and planning joint technological cooperation, across the most advanced technological sectors, in the energy sphere, in the humanitarian sphere, and practically in every area of the bilateral agenda,” Sanakoyev concluded.