BEIJING — Ten years after toasting a budding friendship with vodka and cake, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will meet again in Beijing this week seeking to further deepen the "no-limits" partnership between their two countries.
BEIJING — Ten years after toasting a budding friendship with vodka and cake, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will meet again in Beijing this week seeking to further deepen the"no-limits" partnership between their two countries.Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on March 21, 2023.
Mr Putin's attendance at a leaders' forum in the Chinese capital this week is not only a rare foreign trip for the Russian leader, but also an opportunity to pay homage to Mr Xi's signature Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. They have since drawn closer, with Mr Xi whisking Mr Putin away on a high-speed train ride across China to make traditional steamed buns in 2018.
They are products of two socialist giants, with Mr Xi the scion of a family of Communist revolutionaries and Mr Putin a former Soviet intelligence officer. Their amity has endured despite Russia's frontal assault on Ukraine since last year, thrusting Moscow and Mr Putin into international isolation. That has involved crucial diplomatic, economic and non-lethal military assistance for Moscow against a background of booming bilateral trade, he said.
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