He also affirmed that military and defense relations have reached the highest level of trust while in Beijing addressing the opening session of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.

"It would be no exaggeration to say that our countries have approached this anniversary with relations the best they have been in their entire history," Putin said, according to the AP. "This is the result of meticulous and successful work over the past thirty years." His comments further downplayed the possibility of this apex in Beijing-Moscow relations being put in peril by future tensions. 

Putin praised Xi's ambitious Belt and Road (BRI) as an "extremely important initiative" which "fits perfectly into our plans" in front of about three-dozen world leaders gathered for the conference. It's the second major "Belt and Road Forum" hosted in China to reaffirm support for the Asian and global trade corridor, running April 25 through Saturday, and attended by officials from 37 countries. 

Putin's reference to "our plans" was none other than the "rival" Eurasian Economic Union grouping Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan in a common market that seeks to remove all trade and services barriers — overseen by a Moscow-based executive body, the Eurasian Economic Commission.