Relations of trust and cooperation with China at unprecedented level — Putin

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says the relations of trust and cooperation between Russia and China, including those on approaches to international problems, are at an unprecedented level.

The president noted that relations between Russia and China would be a major factor of international policy.“As for our relations with China’s People’s Republic, they develop successfully and are at an unprecedentedly high level — both at the level of trust and the level of cooperation. I mean also the political sphere, our common approaches to estimations of international situations and to security in the world,” he said during his live Q&A session on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Putin said that Russia was not considering a military-political union with China, as bloc system is outdated. “We are not considering organisation of any military-political union (with China)… The world’s bloc system is outdated,” he said during his Q&A session on Thursday.