China and Russia declared a “no-limits” partnership in February 2022, just days before the Ukraine invasion. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MOSCOW/BEIJING - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Xi Jinping in China this week in a bid to deepen a partnership forged between the United States' two biggest strategic competitors.his first trip outside the former Soviet Union since the Hague-based International Criminal Court issued a warrant for him in March over the deportation of children from Ukraine.
“The US will have to come to grips with the inconvenient fact that a rapidly rising systemic rival and a revanchist one-dimensional superpower with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world are tightly aligned in opposing the USA.” But Mr Xi, who leads a US$18 trillion economy, must balance close personal ties with Mr Putin, with the reality of dealing with the US$27 trillion economy of the United States which is still the world’s strongest military power, and the richest.Putin sees Belt and Road Initiative as China’s desire to cooperate on global issues: ReportsMr Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Centre, said the optics of the Ukraine war made big public deals unlikely right now.
Adding to the complexity of military cooperation is uncertainty over the fate of Defence Minister Li Shangfu, who has not been seen in public for more than six weeks.
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