00:00In Beijing, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed what they call an unprecedented partnership while jointly criticizing Western powers.
00:11In fact, Putin declares that Russia-China relations are at their strongest point in history.
00:18The talks came ahead of a grand military parade marking eight years since the end of the Second World War,
00:24with leaders from around the world set to attend, among them North Korea's Kim Jong-un.
00:30Xi, who recently hosted the Shanghai Corporation Organization SCO Summit in Tianjin,
00:36warned of worsening global instability caused by what he called bullying by unnamed countries, a thinly veiled reference to the United States.
00:45Meanwhile, at the summit, Putin defended Russia's invasion of Ukraine,
00:48saying that the crisis did not begin with Russia's attack on Ukraine, but resulted from a Western-backed coup.
00:55The SCO meeting brought together leaders from 10 member states,
00:59including India and Iran, pledging greater security and economic cooperation.
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