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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto shake hands after a signing ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto in Helsinki on Wednesday, with both leaders agreeing to advance free trade and fight protectionism.
Experts said the meeting, which came a day ahead of Xi's meeting with US President Donald Trump in Florida, showed China's status in global governance is rising as the new US administration creates uncertainty among globalization advocates.
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Xi said that both countries' developments are highly complementary, and should reinforce the political basis of bilateral ties and mutually support each other's development, Xinhua reported.
After meeting with Xi, Niinisto told media that "The Finnish and Chinese governments agreed to advance free trade and fight protectionism," and he also said the two countries are working on "combating climate change, an area where China has shown great leadership," Helsinki-based media Yle News reported on Wednesday.
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The B&R Initiative was put forward by President Xi in 2013, aiming to build a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along and beyond ancient Silk Road trade routes.
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The bilateral relationship shows both economies are complementary, experts say. "After Finland's prosperous 'Nokia era' and the Eurozone Crisis, Finland's economic potential has been damaged, but simultaneously, the Chinese economy started to connect with the world. In this process, both countries successfully established a pragmatic and mutually trusted bilateral relationship," said Jiang Shixue Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit Schwarz Schuhe Günstig , a professor at Shanghai University and deputy director of the Institute for European Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
"Currently, both countries are facing new opportunity. Xi's visit to Finland would be a milestone for the two countries' bilateral ties and even the Sino-EU relationship," Jiang added.
During the meeting between Xi and Niinisto, both sides also agreed to increase communication and exchanges between governments, legislative bodies, judicial organs, and the two countries' political parties, Xinhua reported.
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On Wednesday, Xi agreed to send a pair of pandas to Finland. The animals will be loaned for 15 years and are expected to arrive by the end of the year.
During the leaders' meeting, cooperation on winter sports and preparations for the Winter Olympics were also discussed.
According to Xinhua's report on Wednesday, both China and Finland have agreed to cooperate on winter sporting events and preparations for the Winter Olympics, and make 2019 "the year of China-Finland winter sports."
Finland has advantages in some winter games such as cross-country skiing (for which the country holds 20 Olympics gold medals) and ski jumping (10 gold medals), while the head coach of China's national cross-country skiing team is currently Finland's Mikko Virtanen.
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"As an Olympic event, cross-country skiing needs more countries [to take part in], or it would only be for Norway, Sweden, Russia and Finland, and would not be an interesting sport," he warned.