Vladimir Putin will visit China on Thursday and Friday, marking the Russian leader’s first foreign trip since he was sworn in for a fifth presidential term last week.
The Kremlin said Putin and Xi would “discuss the whole range of issues in detail in their all-encompassing partnership and strategic relationship, define the key directions of the further development of Russia-China practical partnership, and hold a thorough exchange of views on the most pressing international and regional problems”.
Beijing has thrown Moscow a vital economic lifeline by helping temper the damage from western sanctions over the war that have cut Russia out of international markets and supply chains.
The US is increasingly concerned about China’s role in helping Russia gear up its war machine and has warned Beijing that Chinese companies could face secondary sanctions for supplying Moscow’s defence industry.
Putin underscored the importance of the arms sector, which officials say is working around the clock in multiple shifts to raise production, by appointing technocrat Andrei Belousov as defence minister on Sunday and cracking down on corruption within the army.
@ISIDEWITH2wks2W
In what ways do you believe strong partnerships between countries like Russia and China can impact the world?
@9MGCNNM2wks2W
It can create relationships and ties and is good for the nation
@9MGCHK5Republican2wks2W
I think the relationship between the two can be deadly and impact the world for the worst.
They can have a major impact as they are both powerful counties.
@9MG9XRR2wks2W
They will influence the world negatively and try to push their authoritarian views on him.
@CatMariaLibertarian2wks2W
The autocrats of the world getting together and getting aligned, while the democratic world still living in a la la land, "playing by the rules", worried about "escalation", and not realising what is coming and not being able to get their act together to defend themselves.
@ChicMooseDemocrat2wks2W
The 'democratic world' (aka the US and most of Europe because the rest of the democratic world are more civilised and far less hypocritical), have lost finally and conclusively the relative moral high-ground they had by supporting the genocide in Gaza.
Laws and norms are being trampled with impunity and everyone sees this now, so the jungle it will be and it's all thanks to the breathtaking hypocrisy of some western leaders
@GranolaLillianDemocrat2wks2W
What's on agenda - espionage techniques. IP theft. How to work around sanctions. How to hide money trail. How to spread disinformation in the west. How to suppress own population. How to print false GDP and other economic data. How to commit mass murder in neighboring nations and in selective provinces in their own nation.
How to unleash talking point messengers onto western forums.
How to fund DonCon. Make sure he comes to power to bail them out.
@B1partisanFaithVeteran2wks2W
And on the agenda for Biden and Netanyahu's next meeting:
- How to kill more children
- How to injure more innocent men, women and children
- How to destroy the last vestiges of society in Gaza
- How to steal more Palestinian land
- How to build more settlements
- How to solve the contradiction of a supporting Israel's genocidal behaviour whilst condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- How to blame more of the world's ills on 'Khamas'
- How to dehumanise Palestinians further
@Freedom762wks2W
If Israel is trying to kill more children and women, it is doing it in the stupidest, strangest, least efficient possible way – warning them of their predicament and spending money EVACUATING THEM from the war zone. If they were truly these savages and dogs you make them out to be, they'd drop a Nuclear Bomb on Gaza and Rafah and call it a done deal.
@AdoringFishDemocrat2wks2W
Maybe this is just me, but I get the impression that Xi is smarter than Putin. Putin's a psychopathic revanchist who wants to reconstruct the USSR. Xi seems more of a geopolitical strategist, as well as "just a dictator". Witness Xi's attitude toward Taiwan. He hasn't just rushed in to invade the place the way Putin invaded Ukraine. And, yes, I'm factoring in the differences between those two military situations.
The net result of this IQ difference is that Xi will never embrace Putin as a complete brother-and-equal. He'll always treat Putin as just another cog in his machine, to be used as necessary, and ignored as necessary.
@P4rtisanMareRepublican2wks2W
What would happen if Putin's plane "mysteriously" crashed, like Prigozhin's did? Wouldn't that have an immediate impact on the war on Ukraine and send a strong message to the rest of the autocrats?
Obviously not suggesting anything, just asking.
Xi will report back to Putin on his recent trip to Europe and how he used Macron to kind of blurring up the real motive of his visit on the Old Continent which was to show the world that Hungary and Serbia are into China/Russia’s orbit. Xi will then ask his western province governor to report back on the progress of his military adventure and what he can do to help.
@ISIDEWITH2wks2W
What are your feelings about the use of economic strategies to navigate through international sanctions?
@9MGCHK5Republican2wks2W
The world is so out of touch with reality they forget why they are fighting or having any issues between eachother. No country is advanced enough to rule any more territory then they have.
@ISIDEWITH2wks2W
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