TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet this week with Chinese leaders in Beijing on a visit that underscores China’s...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet this week with Chinese leaders in Beijing on a visit that underscores China’s economic and diplomatic support for Moscow during its war in Ukraine.
Putin's visit has not been confirmed, but Chinese officials have suggested he will be arriving late Monday. “It’s the major market for Russian commodities, it’s a country that provides its currency and payment system to settle Russia’s trade with the outside world — with China itself, but also with many other countries, and is also the major source of sophisticated technological imports, including dual use goods that go into the Russian military machine.”
China and the former Soviet Union were Cold War rivals for influence among left-leaning states, but have since partnered in the economic, military and diplomatic spheres. Just weeks before Russia's full-fledged invasion of Ukraine last February, Putin met with Xi in Beijing and the sides signed an agreement pledging aand Beijing's attempts to pose itself as a neutral peace broker in Russia's war on Ukraine have been widely dismissed by the international community.
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