The long-awaited meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping has already ended. Putin will meet Jinping during his two-day state stop in China starting Thursday, May 16, China’s Foreign Ministry confirmed.
“At the invitation of President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin will pay a state to China on May 16 and 17,” Shina Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Tuesday.
Russia also reportedly showed Xi’s invitation and said Putin was responding. The Kremlin was quoted through the PTI as saying it would be the first time Putin had been abroad since he was sworn in as president and began his fifth term.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will talk about the clash in Ukraine as well as power and economic cooperation,” Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, another Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Wang Wenbin, said the two leaders would talk about “cooperation in spaces of bilateral relations. . . as well as on foreign and regional problems of not unusual interest. “
The Kremlin said that “a joint declaration of the heads of state is planned to be signed after negotiations and bilateral documents”.
During his tour, Putin will visit two cities: Beijing and Harbin. This will be Putin’s moment in China in about 8 months. This year also marks the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Russia.
The most recent meeting between the two global leaders is seen as a show of unity between the two main allies who oppose the U. S. -led Western liberal global order. The assembly is important in the wake of the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the attacks in the Red Sea and tensions between Israel and Iran.
CNN reported that Putin’s visit to China mirrors Xi’s visit to Moscow just over a year ago, where he marked the “life-changing beginning” of a new term as president, like Putin.
Vladimir Putin was sworn in as Russia’s president for a record fifth term in his inauguration rite on May 7, 2024. Last year, China’s Xi Jinping won a third five-year term as president on Friday, putting it on track to remain in place. for life.
Russia recently captured at least seven villages in Ukraine as part of the ongoing “military operation. “For the time being, “Russia must stabilize its country’s relations with China, especially in industry and energy,” said Zhao Minghao, a professor at the Shanghai Institute. of International Studies, he told the Washington Post.
Moreover, the Putin-Jinping assembly comes just months before the US presidential election, especially at a time when Washington is under fire for its support for Israel in the context of the war in Gaza.
“While Xi sees his ties with Putin as running counter to the growing U. S. hostility to China, which Beijing says is aimed at countering his rise, there are concerns about Putin’s continuation of the war in Ukraine,” the PTI reported.
The assembly is also for Xi, who recently visited Europe and held a trilateral assembly with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Today, Xi’s meeting with Putin is widely seen as an “opportunity to demonstrate that his loyalty to Putin has damaged his ability to interact with the West. “
“Putin’s vacation demonstrates that Beijing has not replaced his vision of its bilateral relations with Russia, despite constant calls from European leaders to end China’s war economy and defense industry,” the Washington Post quoted Meia Nouwens, a senior researcher for Chinese security, as saying. and defense, as he said. To the International Institute for Strategic Studies, as he said.
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