{"id":49511,"date":"2024-03-18T20:43:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T10:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49511"},"modified":"2024-03-18T20:43:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T10:43:16","slug":"china-congratulates-putin-on-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49511","title":{"rendered":"China congratulates Putin on election victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Key Russian ally China on Monday congratulated President Vladimir Putin on his election victory. &#8220;China expresses its congratulations on this,&#8221; foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said when asked about the vote at a regular press conference.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China and Russia are each other&#8217;s largest neighbours and comprehensive strategic cooperative partners in the new era,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>With 99 percent of polling stations having submitted results, Putin had secured 87.33 percent of all votes cast, official election data showed Monday, according to state news agency RIA.<\/p>\n<p>It is a record victory in a presidential election where he faced no genuine competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We firmly believe that under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and President Putin, China-Russia relations will continue to move forward,&#8221; Lin said, noting that this year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two heads of state will continue to maintain close exchanges, lead the two countries to continue to uphold longstanding good-neighbourly friendship, deepen comprehensive strategic coordination, and promote the continuous development of China-Russia relations in the new era,&#8221; Lin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Russian ally China on Monday congratulated President Vladimir Putin on his election victory. &#8220;China expresses its congratulations on this,&#8221; foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said when asked about the vote at a regular press conference. &#8220;China and Russia are each other&#8217;s largest neighbours and comprehensive strategic cooperative partners in the new era,&#8221; he added. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}