VLADIMIR PUTIN: We have heard those boogeyman stories before. It is a boogeyman story.
We’re neighbors with China. You cannot choose neighbors, just as you cannot choose close relatives. We share a border of a thousand kilometers with them. This is number one.
Second, we have a centuries long history of coexistence. We’re used to it.
Third, China’s foreign policy philosophy is not aggressive. Its idea is to always look for a compromise. And we can see that.
The next point is as follows. We’re always told the same boogeyman story, and here it goes again, through a euphemistic form, but it is still the same boogeyman story.
The cooperation with China keeps increasing. The pace at which China’s cooperation with Europe is growing. It’s higher and greater than that of the growth of Chinese-Russian cooperation.
Ask Europeans. Are they afraid? They might be. I don’t know. But they are still trying to access China’s market at all costs. Especially now that they are facing economic problems.
Chinese businesses are also exploring the European market.
Do Chinese businesses have small presence in the United States? Yes.
The political decisions are such that they are trying to limit the cooperation with China.
It is to your own detriment, Mr. Tucker, that you are limiting cooperation with China. You are hurting yourself.
