{"id":450641,"date":"2026-05-20T05:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/450641\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T05:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:07:08","slug":"putin-tells-xi-russia-china-ties-have-hit-unprecedentedly-high-level-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/450641\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin tells Xi Russia-China ties have hit ‘unprecedentedly high level’ – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Putin’s visit is a near mirror image of Trump’s welcomepublished at 05:48 BST<\/p>\n

05:48 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Laura Bicker
China correspondent<\/p>\n

Cheering children – check. Military honour guard – check. Cannon fire and marching band – check.<\/p>\n

Two visits. Two presidents. And just a few days apart.<\/p>\n

Vladimir Putin is even scheduled to have tea with President Xi in the exclusive Communist Party headquarters later today. <\/p>\n

This visit feels like a near mirror image of last week\u2019s welcome for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Beijing is eager to emphasise that Xi is someone the world’s leaders want to meet. <\/p>\n

We are already getting a hint of what is on the agenda with Putin. <\/p>\n

The Chinese leader told his Russian counterpart that the world was in danger of reverting to the law of the jungle – a reference to the war in the Middle East. And he said the two should work together to promote a more just system of global governance, with no apparent reference to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which Beijing has refused to condemn so far.<\/p>\n

Putin appears keen to discuss the construction of a major natural gas pipeline from Russia to China. He has already told Xi that Russia stands ready as a reliable energy supplier as the war in Iran causes a shortage in supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Putin’s visit is a near mirror image of Trump’s welcomepublished at 05:48 BST 05:48 BST Laura BickerChina correspondent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-450641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}