On April 29, 2025 local time, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla in Rio de Janeiro.
Wang Yi said that China and Cuba are good comrades and partners. President Xi Jinping and President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez reached important common understandings on jointly building a China-Cuba community with a shared future, guiding China-Cuba relations in the new era to maintain a high level of development. China commends Cuba for its unwavering resistance to power politics and its steadfast defense of state sovereignty and national dignity. China will continue to steadfastly support the Cuban people's just struggle against external interference and blockade. China is ready to deepen cooperation with Cuba in various fields to help strengthen Cuba's capacity for independent development.
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla said that Cuba and China enjoy profound friendship. Regardless of the changes in the international landscape, the two sides have always firmly supported each other and have walked together on the path of socialism. He expressed gratitude for China's longstanding trust and assistance to Cuba. Cuba is willing to maintain close high-level exchanges and deepen solidarity and cooperation with China, and hopes to continue receiving China's support in the process of national development and rejuvenation.
The two sides also exchanged views on strengthening BRICS cooperation and cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean countries.