‘Xi Chingping out of China after two years’; Meeting with Vladimir Putin
Beijing: President Xi Jinping is planning to travel outside China for the first time after a gap of more than two years.
Xi will break a two-year hiatus during the Covid-19 pandemic with a Central Asian trip to be held this week.
It is reported that Xi Jinping will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of his visit to Central Asia this week.
This will be the Chinese president’s first overseas trip after the Covid pandemic.
Xi Jinping’s visit is politically significant as Russia’s confrontation with the West over Ukraine, other crises, and the Taiwan issue are all being discussed.
Xi Jinping will visit Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Kazakh and Russian spokesmen said they would then meet with Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Uzbekistan’s ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand.
Meanwhile, the Chinese authorities have not yet released the details of the President’s Central Asian trip.
But Putin’s foreign policy spokesman, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters that Putin hopes to meet with Xi at the Shanghai Cooperation Summit. A Russian spokesman declined to provide details about Xi’s meeting with Putin and the substance of the discussion.
At the same time, it is estimated that Putin will be able to demonstrate Russian inclination towards Asia through the Shanghai Cooperation Summit and mutual meetings, and Xi Jinping will be able to consolidate his influence.
The leaders of both Russia and China are expected to show their opposition to the United States and oppose the West’s attempt to blame Russia alone for the crisis in Ukraine.
It is also noteworthy that in the first seven months of 2022, trade between Russia and China increased by almost a third.
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