Chinese President Xi Jinping and president of Russia Vladimir Putin at the talks in Moscow on March 21 also focused on the Central Asian region, it followed from the joint statement of the countries "on deepening relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction entering a new era."
“The parties are ready to strengthen mutual coordination to support the countries of Central Asia in ensuring their sovereignty and national development, do not accept attempts to import “color revolutions” and external interference in the affairs of the region,” the statement says.
The parties also underscored the "positive contribution of the Collective Security Treaty Organization to ensuring regional security" and the potential for developing cooperation between the CSTO and China "in order to ensure peace and stability in the region."
In a joint statement of the two countries in early February 2022, when Vladimir Putin visited Beijing, it was said that China and Russia opposed "the actions of external forces to undermine security and stability in common adjacent regions", and also "intend to resist the intervention of external forces under what any pretext into the internal affairs of sovereign countries, oppose the "color revolutions" and will increase cooperation in the above-mentioned areas.
