It is notable that China’s Global Times daily chose to feature the agreement adopted to step up Russian-Chinese “in-depth cooperation on digital operating systems, including Russia’s Aurora and Huawei’s HarmonyOS and openEuler, charting a course to break the US monopoly in the sector as the global urgency of developing homegrown technology rises,” as a cutting edge of the 26th regular meeting between the Chinese and Russian heads of government, Premier Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, held virtually on Tuesday. That agreement is reportedly included in the Joint Communique issued after the meeting.
Global Times expects that, between the Chinese central government’s determination to promote Huawei’s OS as a national industrial priority, “and the strength of the two countries, namely their big markets, combined with Russia’s world-renowned mathematics strength and China’s software ability,” the two countries “can speed up the process of breaking new ground in the sector,” much needed due to U.S. efforts to block the science and technology sectors of both nations.
