Beijing, June 25 (EFE).- The Chinese Foreign Minister, Qin Gang, received the Russian Vice Foreign Minister, Andrey Rudenko, in Beijing today, one day after the group of deserving Wagners led an armed rebellion against the Russian Ministry of Defense which lasted about 24 hours, official sources reported.
Gang and Rudenko discussed “relations between China and Russia, and international and regional issues of interest to both parties,” the Asian country’s Foreign Ministry reported briefly, which did not divulge further details.
The Chinese government has not positioned itself on the rebellion
At the moment, the Chinese government has not positioned itself or issued any official statement on the events, which did have a wide impact both in the state media and on the Asian giant’s social networks.
On Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter -a censored network in the country-, tags on the revolt have been among the most searched since Saturday.
“A single incident will not have a direct impact on China or its relations with Russia,” said Feng Yujun, director of the Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies at Fudan University, quoted by the Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post.
But Feng specified that “the general international situation, including the course of the war in Ukraine, uncertainty about Russia’s future development, geopolitical challenges and significant changes in China’s environment will have a profound historical impact” on the country. .
Meanwhile, Liu Weidong, a researcher at the American Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, stressed that China considers Russia to be a key ally, so internal stability is crucial for Beijing, especially given the deterioration of the Asian country’s relations with the West.
For this reason, he predicted an increase in communication and exchanges between China and Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin.
After declaring rebellion, the Wagner Group crossed the Russian border on Saturday, occupied the city of Rostov on the Don and sent four columns on a “march of justice” towards Moscow, as the mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin called it. in order to replace the Russian military leadership, which he blames for the failures of the Russian Army in Ukraine.
The Russian president described the revolt as “treason” and only thanks to the mediation of his Belarusian counterpart, Alexandr Lukashenko, was an agreement reached with Prigozhin that put an end to the uprising.