China’s President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held on Tuesday a video conference call, a day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the US president for a second time. During the call, a portion of which was shared by the Kremlin, Putin said the basis of cooperation between Moscow and Beijing is a “broad community of national interests and a coincidence of views on what relations between major powers should be”. Expressing that Russia and China are building their ties on the basis of matters such as friendship and mutual trust and benefit, Putin said these relations are “self-sufficient” and do not depend on domestic political factors or the current global situation.
