Russian President Putin reported that it would visit Beijing in mid -May. Prior to this, the United States announced a new round of sanctions on Wednesday (May 1) on Wednesday (May 1), including mainland China and Hong Kong companies.Interviewed scholars analyzed that Putin's first visits expressed their emphasis on China for the first time; Beijing also showed that the United States' pressure was unimpeded in China and Russia.
Putin stated in April that plans to visit China in May, but did not give a specific date.Bloomberg News Friday (May 3) quoted anonymous insider who is familiar with the Kremlin plan that Putin is expected to visit China from May 15th to 16th.Although the date may change slightly, this will still be Putin's first visit to .
Although China has not publicly supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine, so far, it has assisted Russia to withstand unprecedented sanctions on the United States and its allies.Driven by Russia's oil exports and electronic products, industrial equipment and automobile procurement, the trade volume of the two countries reached a record of US $ 240 billion (S $ 323.8 billion) last year, more than double the $ 108 billion in 2020.
Although the economic relations between the two countries have become more closely, the China Customs General Administration of Customs shows that China's exports to Russia in March have decreased by nearly 16%year -on -year.A person familiar with the matter revealed to Bloomberg in April that Putin might be willing to expand the trade volume of the two countries during the talks with Chinese officials.
With the continuous expansion of the Russian and Ukraine war, the United States has continued to pressure recently, trying to curb China's commercial assistance to Russia.
The U.S. Treasury announced on May 1 on the war announced A new round of sanctions There are 20 companies in mainland China and Hong Kong.This is also the most extensive against Chinese companies in the US sanctions on Russia so far.
Before visiting China in late April, the Wall Street Journal quoted sources of people familiar with the Wall Street Journal, saying that Washington is studying SanctionsMeasures excluded some Chinese banks outside the global financial system, thereby preventing Beijing from commercial support for Russian military industry.However, anonymous US officials later revealed to Reuters that the United States has not yet formulated specific plans to implement such measures.
Huang Kuibo, a professor at the Department of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan Politburo, analyzed in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that the Chinese and Russian heads of state met again, intending to show the optimization of the relationship between the two parties and contribute to the pressure of the United States.Specifically, Putin attaches great importance to China through the first visit to China; Beijing also shows that China -Russia cooperation does not decrease due to pressure in the United States.
However, Huang Kuibo also mentioned that although China -Russia relations will not be regressed because of the pressure of the United States, there is no sign of further substantial breakthroughs.
He pointed out that after visiting China in Putin, it is worth observing whether Washington will sacrifice the sanctions list and whether the next sanctions objects include the Chinese financial industry, such as commercial banks."If it includes commercial banks, it will significantly affect the international financial order."
In addition, China ’s official Sunday (May 5th) starts with France, Serbia and Hungary, etc.Sky visit.From the perspective of foreign affairs arrangements, this means that Putin will go to China after the Chinese official return to China.
Although the French President Macron sought the European Union to adopt a tougher stance on the issue of China's industrial subsidy before the official visit to France, he talked about beauty in an exclusive interview published by the economist on Thursday (May 2)When the competition between economic and politics and military intensive competition said, he tended to take the initiative to choose the relationship with the United States and China, rather than imposed by the two sides.
He even more admits that China is a big country, and France needs to maintain trade relations with China.
Huang Kuibo believes that Macron's statement also confirms that as Russia and Ukraine have changed with Sino -US relations, although Europe is concerned about Russia, it also believes that there should be a set of its own strategy, rather than step by step to follow the United States.
He said that Beijing must have a chance to smell a diplomatic united front, so there will be a Chinese official visit to Europe and Putin.
