MOSCOW, Feb 22 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that China's Xi Jinping would visit Russia, saying relations had reached 'new frontiers' amid U.S. concerns that Beijing could provide material support to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
MOSCOW, Feb 22 - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that China's Xi Jinping would visit Russia, saying relations had reached"new frontiers" amid U.S. concerns that Beijing could provide material support to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
“We await a visit of the President of the People’s Republic of China to Russia, we have agreed on this,” Putin told Wang.Wang told Putin that relations between the two countries had withstood the pressure from a volatile international situation and that crises offered certain opportunities. Wang earlier met Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, saying that he looked forward to clinching new agreements during his visit to Moscow. There were no details on the agreements.
For Xi, Russia is now more dependent on China than ever. Once the leader in the global Communist hierarchy, Russia after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union is now a junior partner to a resurgent China which already leads in many 21st century technologies.
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