How important is the meeting between Putin and Xi?
Xi Jinping has recently been elected as the President of China for the third time. After that, he is going to Russia on his first foreign visit. The relationship between the two countries is getting stronger day by day. The rapprochement began just before the start of the Ukraine war. Putin met Xi during his visit to China during the Winter Olympics last year. At this time, they promised a ‘boundless’ friendship.
Since then, Beijing has sided with Moscow. Not even a single word was uttered against Russia over the war in Ukraine. The country did not even borrow the ban of the West. U.S. officials say China wants to supply Russia with weapons to use in the Ukraine war. However, even if they did not speak against Russia about the war, they did not side with the government. It can be said that the neutral is in a position. Beijing has even offered a peace plan to stop the war.
The meeting between the two leaders in Moscow is expected to come with a commitment to further strengthen the partnership between Russia and China. The two countries see this partnership as very important to deal with the US and the country’s western allies in the international arena.
