China's President Xi Jinping walks a diplomatic tightrope as he heads to Moscow, seeking to present China as a global peacemaker while strengthening ties with his closest ally, President Vladimir Putin, who fac
, seeking to present China as a global peacemaker while strengthening ties with his closest ally, President Vladimir Putin, who faces criminal charges over his Ukraine war.
China's top trade partners are the United States and the European Union – among the fiercest critics of Russia's war in Ukraine, which Moscow calls a"special military operation". "There's been kind of an increasingly pronounced diplomatic dance on China's part as the war has played out," said Andrew Small, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund.
While Beijing has called for calm since the outset, it has largely reflected Moscow's position that NATO threatened Russia with its eastward expansion and Ukraine's Western allies had fanned the flames of war by supplying it with tanks and missiles. The two leaders will meet for one-to-one talks and dine together on Monday, then hold further negotiations and issue a statement on Tuesday before Xi departs on Wednesday, according to a brief schedule released by the Kremlin.
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