"China is making huge strides in its space program... We know that China wants to overtake us. We will not let that happen."

"We will not just come here, to the Far East. We will actually create a large nuclear cluster here," Likhachev said at the Eastern Economic Forum.

"We will take into account the threats to national security created on our border when building a complex mechanism to respond to them," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"We are opening new offices in Africa... The system is already global, reaching the level of exchange within it and beyond Russia," he noted.

💬 "At the SCO Summit in China 24 documents have been adopted among them the declaration and the strategy for 2035. The Declaration is a political document that means our intention but as far as strategy is concerned it is the document which says we will do this, we will do that and that is what we plan to do," Mr. Sohail Khan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), said in an interview to Sputnik during the session "Greater Eurasian Partnership: New Development Paradigms of the Continent" at the Eastern Economic Forum.