China’s Xi Jinping to travel to Russia for meeting with Putin

Xi Jinping, China’s leader, will visit Russia next week to meet with President Vladimir Putin. This was announced by both governments on Friday.

The visit, which Putin had been promising for months will take place between March 20-23. “the two leaders will discuss current issues concerning the further development of the comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation between Russia and China,” The Kremlin made the statement in a statement.

US HAS NOT SEEN CHINA PROVIDE LETHAL AIDE TO RUSSIA PENTAGON SAYS

“Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will also exchange views in the context of deepening Russia-China cooperation on the international arena. A number of important bilateral documents will be signed,” The Chinese Communist Party continued the statement, while Putin invited Xi to visit next week at his invitation.

In recent weeks and months, the United States warned about their growing partnership. The visit is Xi’s first to Moscow since Russia invaded Ukraine a little over a decade ago.

China and Russia published a communique that was released prior to Moscow’s invasion. This communication outlined a range of plans for diplomatic and economic cooperation. But the war has proved to be a burden on Beijing. Beijing tried to remain neutral in conflict and used Russian talking points given the global fallout of Russia’s unprovoked invasion.

Putin received Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat to the Kremlin last month. He announced the visit of Xi but specific details weren’t given at the time. Putin described the relationship of the two countries as “reaching new frontiers” It was at that time.

For about a month, U.S. officials claimed that Beijing was looking at providing lethal aid for Russia to use in the war. However, those fears have not yet been realized.

“As of right now, we’ve not seen any legal assistance transferring from China to Russia for use on the battlefield in Ukraine,” Pentagon spokesman Brig. On Thursday, Gen. Patrick Ryder stated to reporters that they are aware of the issue and would be discussing it with them. “keeping a very close eye on.”

Jake Sullivan, U.S. national safety adviser, reiterated earlier this week the U.S. warning. “it would not be in China’s interests, from our perspective, for them to supply weapons to Russia for use on the battlefield in Ukraine, but that’s a sovereign decision China will have to make for itself,” adding, “And as I personally said before, we think it would be a big mistake for China to do that because Russia is using those weapons to kill civilians and commit war crimes. And China should want nothing to do with that.”

He said that the U.S. encouraged Xi’s contact with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s President, to be continued.

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Chinese companies have sent Russian entities over a thousand assault weapons and other equipment from June to December last year. Politico Reports were made on Thursday, citing data from a customs data aggregater, but it is not clear if any rifles made it to the battlefield.

Ryder described the experience as “some trade deals” And said: “That in and of itself is not unusual. China and Russia share a trade relationship.”