Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese
Russian President Vladimir Putin got here in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin on Sunday, Chinese and Russian state media reported, for a local security top that China hopes can counter Western impact in international affairs.
For the uncommon four-day see to Russia’s neighbour and biggest trading partner, Putin got here to a red carpet welcome, gotten on the tarmac by top-level city authorities, a livestream of the occasion by Russia’s TASS revealed.
Ties in between China and Russia are at their “best in history”having actually ended up being the “most stable, mature and strategically significant among major countries”Chinese state broadcaster CCTV stated in its report of the arrival.
President Xi Jinping will host about 20 world leaders in Tianjin, likewise consisting of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the two-day top of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the biggest event because the group was developed in 2001 amongst 6 Eurasian countries.
The security-focused bloc has actually broadened to 10 irreversible members and 16 discussion and observer nations over the last few years. Its remit has bigger from security and counter-terrorism to financial and military cooperation.
Xi is anticipated to utilize the top to display what a post-American-led worldwide order would appear like, while supplying a prominent diplomatic increase for Russia, struck by sanctions over its intrusion of Ukraine.
A day before his see, Putin blasted Western sanctions in a composed interview with China’s main Xinhua news firm, stating Moscow and Beijing collectively opposed “discriminatory” sanctions in international trade.
Russia’s economy is on the verge of economic crisis, weighed by trade curbs and the expense of the war.
Leaders from Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia will participate in the top in what China intends to depict as an effective program of unity amongst the “Global South”describing establishing and lower-income nations, mainly in the southern hemisphere.
(Reporting by Mei Chu and Laurie Chen in Tianjin, Casey Hall in Shanghai and Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Writing by Liz Lee; Editing by Jamie Freed and William Mallard)
Released on August 31, 2025
