Putin to visit ‘dear friend’ Xi Jinping days after Trump’s high-stakes trip to Beijing
Mihaela Chircă
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a two-day trip to Beijing next week, the Kremlin said Saturday. The announcement comes less than 24 hours after US President Donald Trump finished his own state visit to China , where he also met Xi to discuss trade and the US and Israel’s war in Iran . In a statement, the Kremlin said that Putin’s trip, planned for May 19-20, had been scheduled to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of
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