Russia’s Vladimir Putin will make a two-day state visit to China this week in the latest show of unity between the two authoritarian allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a state visit to China this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During his two-day trip, Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will discuss bilateral relations as well as international and regional issues of common concern, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Kremlin confirmed the trip in a statement Tuesday, saying Putin was going on Xi\u2019s invitation. This will be Putin\u2019s first foreign trip since he began his fifth term as President of Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beijing has backed Moscow politically in the conflict in Ukraine and has continued to export machine tools, electronics and other items seen as contributing to the Russian war effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China is also a major energy supply export market that keeps the Kremlin\u2019s coffers full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beijing has sought to project itself as a neutral party in the conflict but has declared a \u201cno limits\u201d relationship with Russia in opposition to the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sides have also held a series of joint military drills, while China has consistently opposed economic sanctions against Russia in response to its now two-year-old campaign of conquest against Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two large authoritarian states are increasingly in dispute with democracies and NATO while seeking to gain influence in Africa, the Middle East and South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Putin’s visit comes just days before Monday’s inauguration of William Lai Ching-te as the next president of Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy that China claims as its own territory and threatens to annex by force if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Xi returned last week from a five-day visit to Europe, including stops in Hungary and Serbia, countries considered close to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The trip, Xi’s first to the continent in five years, was seen as an attempt to increase China’s influence and drive a wedge between the EU and NATO on one side and a yet-to-be-defined bloc of authoritarian nations on the other, underpinned by Chinese economic influence that has been wavering amid a housing crisis and dramatically slower domestic economic growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last week, Xi returned from a five-day visit to Europe, including stops in Hungary and Serbia \u2014 countries considered close to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The trip was seen as an attempt to increase Chinese stature in Europe and drive a wedge between the EU and a bloc of nations underpinned by Beijing’s economic influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Euronews)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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