Xi Jinping To Host Putin
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Ties between Russia and China are at an unprecedented level, President Vladimir Putin told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday, and invited him to visit Russia next year.
Beijing is the largest purchaser of Russian oil and also a key ally of Russia despite Western sanctions on Moscow. China's official stance is neutrality in the war, as it calls for its peaceful resolution through dialogue.
The Chinese leader’s policies have strained his country at home but given him great international stature.
Donald Trump reportedly suggested during closed-door talks with Xi Jinping that the US, China and Russia should work together against the International Criminal Court. The alleged proposal came during a Beijing meeting that also touched on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Coming so soon after the visit by US president Donald Trump, the optics and outcomes of the meeting between China and Russia will be closely scrutinised
Vladimir Putin landed in China on Tuesday to a warm welcome from his “dear friend” President Xi Jinping, but he arrived with the heavy burden of a war he increasingly seems unable to win.
China’s Xi Jinping allegedly told President Trump that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin might end up regretting his decision to invade Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China today for a two-day working visit, where he was welcomed at the airport by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, according to the Russian news agency Sputnik.