China’s media group consisting of the newspapers Genming Zhibao, China Daily, the news agency Xinhua, and the Chinese Media Corporation CMG (CCTV) on August 28 published an interview of Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon.
In the interview, Rahmon stated that cooperation between Tajikistan and China in all areas has reached a qualitatively new level of a comprehensive strategic partnership.
Rahmon emphasized the importance of developing cooperation in various areas of the economy, in particular, industrialization, energy, transport, investment, digital technologies and the implementation of green projects, and stated that the Belt and Road Initiative has created new economic opportunities and infrastructure development for Tajikistan.
Rahmon called the President of China, Xi Jinping, “his friend,” and assessed him as a leader with great experience, broad outlook, and global influence. “The global initiatives of the Chinese leader are of great importance for peace, security, and the development of regional integration,” the Tajik leader said.
Rahmon highly appreciated China’s chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, considering it a step towards strengthening the Organization’s role in the international arena.
He stressed China’s practical contribution to ensuring regional security, which is the main axis of sustainable economic and social development in the region.
Rahmon supported the process of cooperation to strengthen combat against security threats and dangers, in particular terrorism and extremism, radicalization and separatism, cyber threats, drug trafficking, and other manifestations of transnational organized crime.
