Russia-China (Image credit:AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit China on Tuesday for a two-day visit, less than a week after US President Donald Trump made a high-profile trip to the country.Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ‘old friend’ visit is officially linked to the 25th anniversary of the 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China on May 19 for a two-day visit, shortly after US President Donald Trump concluded his high-profile trip to Beijing, the Kremlin announced on Saturday.According to a Kremlin statement, Putin will hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on ways to “further strengthen the comprehensive partnership and strategic […]
German foreign minister Johann Wadephul stressed the importance of fair and rule-based trade as he began his two-day visit to China on Monday.“We are in favor of free world trade. We are in favor of removing trade barriers,” Wadephul said in Beijing during talks with Chinese commerce minister Wang Wentao.The foreign minister said that China […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that China has the potential to pressure Russia to end the war, following US calls for Beijing to halt its oil purchases from Moscow.“China is also represented here, a powerful nation on which Russia now depends completely,” Zelensky told the council, noting China’s status […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said that Moscow and Beijing are “united in strengthening” the Brics grouping, positioning it as a counterweight to what he called “discriminatory sanctions” hampering the economic progress of many nations. Speaking to China’s Xinhua News Agency ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin, Putin stressed that […]
