| When a reporter asked whether the fact that now a large number of Chinese
 citizens overstay short-term vis as after [*] entering Russia will become a factor in tense relations between
 China and Russia and how this problem should be solved [*T*-28] [*-27] [*T*-43] , Zemin Jiang expressed that
 with the continuous development of friendly , neighborly relations between China and Russia in recent years
 , the two countries are no longer isolated [*-44] from each other , and relations between them have
 expanded , with rapidly increasing staff contacts .
 
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