Russia-China relations built on trust, cooperation, says Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that Russia and China have built a trusting relationship, and together the countries have the ability to counter foreign threats. Is Russia really controlling China or the reverse, actually ? “We really have a very close strategic relationship with the People’s Republic of China,” the minister said during his annual press conference held in an online format. “We can talk endlessly about Russian-Chinese cooperation that embraces a very wide range of spheres, almost all spheres of human activity, and the activities of states,” he added, in response to a question from Xinhua. Speaking…