DANGEROUS ALLIES: China's president to visit Russia next week amid Ukraine invasion
Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs on President Xi potentially brokering a peace deal.will visit Russia from Monday to Wednesday. The move comes in an apparent show of support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he faces global pressure to end the invasion of Ukraine.Xi and Putin will discuss"issues of further development of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction between Russia and China," the Kremlin said.
The meeting will help deepen"Russian-Chinese cooperation in the international arena," the Russian government added. China's President Xi Jinping claps as he listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin via a video link in Beijing on Dec. 2, 2019.China has been resolute to act in its own interest while most of the world has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which passed the one-year mark last month.Xi has refused to condemn Moscow’s invasion but has called for a peaceful resolution.
This photograph taken on September 11, 2022, shows a Ukranian soldier standing atop an abandoned Russian tank near a village on the outskirts of Izyum, Kharkiv Region, eastern Ukraine.Putin invited Xi to visit Russia in late December. Putin said the visit could"demonstrate to the whole world the strength of the Russian-Chinese ties" and"become the main political event of the year in bilateral relations.
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