CIAO DATE: 12/2010
A publication of:
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Jan. 11, 2010: Russian missile warning systems detect a test by China of an interceptor missile, although China had not given prior notification. Jan. 25, 2010: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) sponsors a conference in Moscow for deputy ministers of foreign affairs on Regional Consultations on Afghanistan. Jan. 25-26, 2010: Chinese and Russian frontier defense troops complete the first joint patrol along the Argun River, an ice-covered boundary river in the east of China’s Inner Mongolia. March 12, 2010: First Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov travels to Beijing and meets Vice Foreign Minister Wang Guangya and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi to discuss a “collective approach” to the resolution of the Iranian nuclear problem, Afghanistan, the opening of the Year of the Chinese Language in Russia. March 20-24, 2010: Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping makes an official visit to Russia as part of his four-European nation tour (Russia, Belarus, Finland and Sweden). March 21-25, 2010: China’s State Councilor Liu Yandong makes an official visit to Russia at the invitation of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov in order to attend the opening ceremony of the Year of the Chinese Language. March 26, 2010: The seventh meeting of the SCO cultural ministers is held in China’s Hainan Province. Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, speaks at the meeting. March 29, 2010: President Hu sends a telegram to the President Dmitry Medvedev expressing his condolences to the families of those killed and injured in the attacks in the Moscow metro. Hu also said that “China strongly condemns these attacks and expresses its support for the Russian efforts in fighting against terrorism, protecting its national security and social stability.”