“Tiger for the Russian Far East”? Russian President Vladimir Putin, while discussing ties to Russian-India in China (RIC), joking that the “tiger” could represent his nation instead of a “bear” in the middle of a popular “dragon and an elephant” created by Chinese President XI to describe relations between two Asian nations.
Putin at the East Economic Forum 2025 said that “Bear” added the media after President Xi Jinping came up with the analogy “dragon-slon”.
“Of course,” Bear “is a symbol of Russia, but we are here – the Far East and the largest tiger in the world is the local breed,” Putin said with a reference to Tiger Amur or Siberian tiger.
Putin on ric ties
“Our relationship with the Asian-Tichoral and Global South, which is not the current geopolitical environment, has shared interests for decades,” Putin said about Ric’s ties.
Upon request, the bear as a symbol is the kind of “Husky animal”, Putin mentioned the symbol of the United States, which is an eagle with a double head. He takes a gentle kick and said it looks west and east, but “is also south, you know”.
“Dragon and elephant”
Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Putin at the summit of the organization for cooperation in Shanghai in Tianjin at the beginning of this week, in the middle of both Asian nations faced by Trump’s tariffs.
At the XI meeting, it was important that the “dragon and the elephant join”.
“The world is going to transform. China and India are two of the most civilization countries. We are the two most populous countries in the world and part of the global south … It is necessary to be friends, a good neighbor and a dragon and an elephant to join …” Xi Jinping said.
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi reported on his interviews with US President Donald Trump in anchor, while driving in his Russian Aurus on the outskirts of the SCO summit.
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