Putin calls XI “Dear Friend” while the bonds of Russia-China reach new heights

Russian President Vladimir Putin, alongside its Chinese Chinese president, Xi Jinping, defended the “unprecedented” ties of the duo while the United States and Europe remain tense by the Moscow War in Ukraine.

The Beijing meeting once again cemented the increased unit that the opponent’s nations continued after Putin’s invasion in 2022 and one day took place before a major military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

But it is not only the Kremlin and the Chinese Communist Party (PCC) that seek to unite in a demonstration of opposition to the West.

Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Greater People’s Hall, in Beijing, China, September 2, 2025. (China Daily via Reuters)

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who went to China for the first time on Sunday for the Shanghai cooperation Organization (SCO), met Xi on Tuesday and qualified imminent UN sanctions targeting his nuclear program a “double standard”.

“The same countries that have violated the (Complete Complete Action Plan) JCPOA now affirms that Iran does not respect its commitments,” he said in an interview with Chinese Media, according to Iranian international.

Pezeshkian’s comments were in direct reference to the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA in 2018 during the first Trump administration-a decision that was criticized by Russian and Chinese officials last week after the United Kingdom, France and Germany announced their intention to employ snapback sanctions.

China, Iran and Russia sent a letter to the UN secretary general condemning this decision and claiming that the West was united in a “politically destructive” course.

North Korean leader Kim Jong One also went to China on Tuesday after his armored train was seen arriving in Bejing, where he was then met by Chinese officials, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wang Yi, reported Reuters.

A train suspected of carrying the North Korean leader Kim Jong, a arrival in Beijing, in front of a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Beijing, China, September 2, 2025. (Reuters / Tingshu Wang)

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Although North Korea is not a member of the OCS – an intercontinental group of nine members increasingly considered to be anti -Western and which includes China, Iran and Russia – Kim’s increased links with Putin have aroused questions about the question of whether there could be a trilateral agreement to include China on the horizon.

XI underlined the growing concern with regard to international groups like SCO or BRICS – a distinct group which again understands Russia and China – in its comments on Monday when he said: “We must continue to take a clear position against hegemonism and power policy.”

The North Korean leader Kim Jong One serves his hand with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the visit of Xi to Pyongyang, North Korea, in this unclean photo published on June 21, 2019. (KCNA via Reuters)

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American secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent rejected the summit As a “performative” and again called China and India – which are also found both in SCO and in the BRICS – as “bad players” on their continuous status as the best buyers of Russian fossil fuels.

But a new natural gas agreement Putin and Xi reached Tuesday that China does not intend to reduce trade with Russia despite the immense price threats of Trump, which could come into force if a trade agreement is not concluded between Washington and Beijing in November.