China’s president will meet Putin at the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation’s summit, which is set to admit Iran
Visitors tour the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, China, September 3 2022. Picture: FLORENCE LO/REUTERS
China’s president will then meet Putin at the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation’s summit in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the Kremlin said. Russia suffered its worst defeat of the war last week, abandoning its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine. Instead, the two leaders are deepening ties. Trade soared by nearly a third between Russia and China in the first seven months of 2022.
While Xi has met Putin in person 38 times since becoming China’s president in 2013, he has yet to meet Joe Biden in person since the latter became US president in 2021. “The bigger message really isn’t that Xi is supporting Putin, because it’s been pretty clear that Xi supports Putin,” said Prof Steve Tsang, director of the China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
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