PRESIDENT PUTIN MEETING PRESIDENT XI JIANPING EXPLAINED | ANDREI MARTYANOV

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]the details. So, President Putin is visiting China. What's your thoughts about the visit? What do you think the direction's going to be, especially a few days after President Trump visited?

[00:00:11]Uh I would want to start from the from the end, from the finish, so to speak. It has no relation to President Trump's visit. It just coincided because Vladimir Putin's visit has been prepared in advance for a very long time.

[00:00:29]And there will be 40 plus agreements and contracts signed.

[00:00:35]It's already known. There will be communicate issued. After that, we also know this. This has hasn't happened with Trump. There was no even press conference.

[00:00:45]And of course, the statement declaration from both China and Russia about the onset. It fait It is fait accompli of the multipolar world. So, that's basically what uh Russia and China will do. After that, there will be a lot of energy projects. There will be a lot of technological issues discussed and contracts concluded. And yeah, who knows where it will go in terms of the further military deepening of the military cooperation, which obviously does exist. And general discussion of the what is inevitable now, the end of the US dollar. It's not inevitable. It's already happened essentially. It's fait accompli. But it's how to basically reshape the world.

[00:01:33]And that's very important. It's a historic turning point in many respects. And after that, it's all about Russian-Chinese relations strictly within this framework bilateral relations. And the fact that Russians essentially pushed China. They said, "You know what? You cannot continue to be multi-vector."

[00:01:58]Uh we did, you saw yourself, defeated 52 uh countries alliance against us in special military operation.

[00:02:07]And obviously Iran's success in withstanding this onslaught aggression from United States and Israel was largely to a certain very large degree due to demilitarization of NATO by Russia.

[00:02:22]United States was essentially effectively demilitarized. So, it's time for China to really make a choice and you know, move towards deeper and faster into Eurasian economic integration.

[00:02:36]And um that's what's going to happen. And again, keep in mind, unlike with Trump, Xi Jinping and Putin are very good friends. They are really good friends on personal terms. So, as they say, BFF diplomacy, whatever, you know, doesn't matter. But there are irritating factors, make no mistake. It is not some kind of utopia.

[00:03:00]There are irritating factors, there are delays and sometimes you know, sabotage of those relations on the Chinese side.

[00:03:06]But generally speaking, it's it's good looks really good. And yeah, as already stated, that will be the declaration that yeah, it's all right, guys. And whatever the West does, Europe is irrelevant essentially. And so it's going to be Russia, China and United States, if it wants to remain great power, it has to somehow engage with a normal rational discourse with those two. And this is the three superpower uh so to speak, you know, arrangement if you wish. And China has to assert itself as superpower, real super not just economic. And Russians were telling them, "How about now, you know, do something about it." And yeah, that's pretty much what it is in in historic and holistic terms if you wish.

[00:03:54]That's a a very good basis to like continue [clears throat] to expand on. So, now you you're looking at this kind of movement that's going on. We're seeing a President Putin expand in a number of different avenues. And one of those avenues was a few weeks ago President Putin himself went to meet Iran's foreign minister Araghchi as well as Pakistan in Central Asia. What's the parameters of that meeting? What was the thesis behind it? And what was the result of it?

[00:04:24]Well, I think one of the major vectors if you wish was that and evidently Iranians are ready to do that if it comes down to it. Russia obviously helps and aids Iran in any way possible including which we're not going to talk about wink wink, you know, so some providing targeting and all other things, you know, so but uh Russians say, "Yeah, we can take your uranium if it comes down to you can, you know, store store it in Russia. You will have access if need be." So, and obviously Iran and Russia they have increasingly close relations and so and Mr. Araghchi met Vladimir Putin on the number of occasions. So, and Russia wants to stop any kind of the hostilities within the Many people still do not understand.

[00:05:16]Russians do not want actually the Strait of Hormuz uh not Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf to become the hot spot which it already is. But Russians say, "Hey, you know what? Iran, you keep your Strait of Hormuz control, enrich yourself doing this, but let's kind of restore a little bit, you know, the flow of the energy." But um Russia is really independent of that. It's really for Russia it makes not that much difference. So, in the end it all comes down to keeping its uh what is becoming increasingly allied relations between Russia and Iran in safe peaceful environment because there is a huge potential between Iranian and Russian relations in terms of especially commerce and economically and um So, there are so many things which are plugged into it. So, in this case, Pakistan is kind of like intermediary, but everybody understands behind Iran, there is Russia and China who are working behind the curtain, so to speak, to calm down this whole situation. And you know what? The United States already sustained a humiliating military defeat, not just, you know, some kind of the political or geopolitical. And it is also fait accompli. It's So, and Iranians are obviously ready to face whatever the remnants of the American arsenal, you know, can basically offer them, not in a good way. So, and you have to understand Moscow Kremlin operates on this is incredibly complex decision tree, you know, they're looking at those nexuses from which you can basically develop things and how they the ramifications of all that. We know they are colossal in its historic ramifications.

[00:07:07]But so now, Russians, which was always Russian position, they do not want it to progress into the stage when United States will be forced because United States conventionally is not a strong country militarily, that it might come to this that Trump will be cornered completely and he will have to resort to God forbid some kind of the nuclear, you know, option. So, that's the kind of frame of mind of people in Kremlin. That's why Pakistan is fine, you know, as long as Pakistan contributes in any way, let it, you know, on board. And so, uh but we know that there is a definite, uh open channel between Vladimir Putin and uh Khamenei junior, let's call him Khamenei junior, okay? And Mr. Aragchi is the important messenger and obviously participant of this process. And so, uh yeah, there is so much happening right now in the world. It's impossible to completely even uh for in 5-hour uh basically uh podcast, you cannot still even, you know, uh or or open or discuss anything but a small fraction of what is going on. So, but this one is very important. No doubt. Just a quick question on what you said. J.D. Vance, the vice president of the United States, just came out today and said that Russia taking the enriched uranium isn't as part of the conversation as in they're not open to that possibility. And so, the question Uh sorry.

[00:08:41]No, no, no, of course not. Yeah. Yeah, so he's claiming that obviously Iran will never allow the US to take it. So, what's what's happening?

[00:08:49]I mean, no. I mean, United States have been defeated, okay?

[00:08:53]Let's face it. What do you want to do?

[00:08:55]Uh so, repeat the Isfahan incursion?

[00:08:58]It's going to end even in the larger disaster, okay? And so, this are all their dreams. Uh this are militarily and strategically operationally incompetent things, you know, which are happening.

[00:09:09]Pentagon uh they cannot come out openly and say, "Okay, we got our butt handed to us."

[00:09:15]Okay? So, they need to constantly, you know, make this dance around all that.

[00:09:20]But now, uh 2 days ago, they admitted 39 uh aircraft. Now it's 42 aircraft lost.

[00:09:28]And this is There was a very important admission from uh CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper when he stated, "Yeah, and that was also iterated through all kinds of Mr. Driskill, you know, the Under Secretary of the Army talking to Congress that yeah, we have actually very low arsenals level of the standoff weapons. So, if it comes down, we need to and that is what is many people missing. They said, 'Oh, we will need to go much closer to the Iranian airspace.' That means only one thing. Yeah, whenever they tried it before, they were shot down. So, that means what? He says that yeah, we have to go with our GBU J-Dams, you know, closer, which means what? They will be shot down. And there evidently Iranian air defense is intact, it's operational.

[00:10:23]And so, there's a lot of things which are going on which the United States cannot go with, you know. So, what do they do what are they going to do? They essentially expanded within 6 weeks half of its arsenal of the standoff weapons.

[00:10:38]So, they cannot go probably below 30% which is untouchable essentially storage.

[00:10:45]So, they essentially have nothing.

[00:10:47]Iranians know that.

[00:10:49]Russians know that. Actually, Mr. Trump probably knows that. That is why he only makes money on, you know, manipulating market. But militarily, United States doesn't have