China's diplomacy makes world a better place

President Xi Jinping's two-day state visit to Russia followed by a three-day state visit to Germany, during which he also attended the G20 Summit in Hamburg, should be regarded as the most important foreign trip he has made since China hosted the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing in May.

During his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, as well as Russian media and business leaders in Russia, Xi strengthened the consensus on policy and strategy between Beijing and Moscow over a range of important global issues, including the synergy between the China-led Belt and Road Initiative and Russia's Eurasian Economic Union, Russia-China media cooperation, Northeast Asia security, the deployment of the US' Terminal High Altitude Area Defense anti-missile system in the Republic of Korea and the Syrian crisis.

During his visit to Germany, the talks Xi held with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other German leaders and the bilateral deals agreed elevated Beijing-Berlin ties to a new level. Incidentally, China is the largest trading partner of Germany, and Germany the largest trading partner of China in the European Union.