Putin arrives in China’s Tianjin for safety summit
Vladimir Putin and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi are among the many greater than 20 world leaders attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, which is being held within the northern Chinese language port metropolis of Tianjin.
The SCO includes China, India, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus – with 16 extra nations affiliated as observers or “dialogue companions”. The China and Russia-led regional safety grouping is attempting to rebalance international energy of their favour and away from the US.
Putin, who is needed for struggle crimes by the worldwide felony courtroom, arrived in Tianjin on Sunday to a purple carpet welcome and heat greetings from top-ranking metropolis officers.
Vladimir Putin arrives for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin. {Photograph}: Guo Xulei/AP
Throughout his journey, which is anticipated to stretch to shut to per week, the Russian president will maintain talks with Chinese language president Xi Jinping, his shut ally, and watch Beijing’s Victory Day navy parade marking 80 years since Japan’s defeat within the second world struggle, the place Putin is because of be the star visitor alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and leaders of Iran and Cuba.
Kim and Putin signed a mutual defence pact final yr, and North Korea confirmed this April that it had deployed troopers to the frontline in Ukraine to battle alongside Russian troops.
Putin has turned to Beijing for commerce and political help since his full-scale invasion of Ukraine was launched in February 2022. China and Russia declared a “no limits” partnership when Putin visited Beijing simply days earlier than he despatched tens of hundreds of troops into Ukraine.
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The Guardian’s Russian affairs reporter, Pjotr Sauer, has written a chunk about Putin’s journey and what it could imply for the struggle in Ukraine. Right here is an extract of his story:
Key on the agenda, analysts say, will probably be for Putin and Xi to align their positions on the struggle in Ukraine amid US efforts to finish the combating. “It is a vital time for them to speak about the place the struggle is headed and the way possible it’s to be stopped within the close to future,” mentioned Alexander Gabuev, the director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Centre.
Gabuev mentioned Moscow wished to know whether or not it may anticipate any additional help from China and the way Beijing would reply if the US had been to ask it to place strain on Russia to finish the combating…
China has emerged as an financial lifeline for Russia in the course of the struggle in Ukraine, and Kyiv has been more and more outspoken about what it says is China’s direct aiding of Moscow’s struggle effort.
Bilateral commerce climbed to greater than $240bn final yr, two-thirds larger than earlier than the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Beijing is now the main purchaser of Russian oil and coal and can shortly surpass Europe as Moscow’s predominant marketplace for pure fuel…
The talks are additionally prone to contact on deepening navy cooperation between Beijing and Moscow, a improvement that has alarmed western governments.
Whereas China has stopped wanting offering direct navy help, US officers say Beijing has provided about 70% of the machine instruments and 90% of the semiconductors Russia must rebuild its struggle machine. In return, China is believed to be receiving help in delicate defence applied sciences.
China claims it’s a impartial mediator within the struggle in Ukraine, however the two nations have pulled nearer collectively because the begin of the invasion.
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin throughout Russia’s Victory Day navy parade in Moscow in Might. {Photograph}: Sergey Bobylev/HOST PHOTO AGENCY RIA NOVOSTI/EPAShare
Putin arrives in China’s Tianjin for safety summit
Vladimir Putin and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi are among the many greater than 20 world leaders attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, which is being held within the northern Chinese language port metropolis of Tianjin.
The SCO includes China, India, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus – with 16 extra nations affiliated as observers or “dialogue companions”. The China and Russia-led regional safety grouping is attempting to rebalance international energy of their favour and away from the US.
Putin, who is needed for struggle crimes by the worldwide felony courtroom, arrived in Tianjin on Sunday to a purple carpet welcome and heat greetings from top-ranking metropolis officers.
Vladimir Putin arrives for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin. {Photograph}: Guo Xulei/AP
Throughout his journey, which is anticipated to stretch to shut to per week, the Russian president will maintain talks with Chinese language president Xi Jinping, his shut ally, and watch Beijing’s Victory Day navy parade marking 80 years since Japan’s defeat within the second world struggle, the place Putin is because of be the star visitor alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and leaders of Iran and Cuba.
Kim and Putin signed a mutual defence pact final yr, and North Korea confirmed this April that it had deployed troopers to the frontline in Ukraine to battle alongside Russian troops.
Putin has turned to Beijing for commerce and political help since his full-scale invasion of Ukraine was launched in February 2022. China and Russia declared a “no limits” partnership when Putin visited Beijing simply days earlier than he despatched tens of hundreds of troops into Ukraine.
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