MOSCOW/WASHINGTON — The US is concerned by greater alignment between China and Russia, the US State Department said on Wednesday (Feb 22) after Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed 'new frontiers' in ties with Beijing and signalled China's Xi Jinping would visit his country. Word of Xi's visit comes as Washington has said China is considering providing weapons for Russia's war...
Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with China's Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi during a meeting in Moscow, Russia on Feb 22, 2023.MOSCOW/WASHINGTON — The US is concerned by greater alignment between China and Russia, the US State Department said on Wednesday after Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed "new frontiers" in ties with Beijing and signalled China's Xi Jinping would visit his country.
"We await a visit of the President of the People's Republic of China to Russia, we have agreed on this," Putin told Wang, referring to Xi.US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Wang's visit to Russia on the eve of the war's one-year anniversary was further evidence of Beijing's alignment with Moscow.
Russia's Tass news agency cited Wang — who held a separate meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov — as saying China would "firmly adhere to an objective and impartial position and play a constructive role in the political settlement of the crisis" in Ukraine. Wang told Putin that relations between the two countries had withstood a volatile international situation.
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