Russia’s leader backs China on Taiwan after meeting with Xi at Shanghai Co-operation Organisation
Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre. Picture: SPUTNIK/REUTERS
The two leaders met in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on the sidelines of the eight-nation Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, a security alliance created as a counterweight to US influence that also includes India and Pakistan. A Chinese readout of the meeting also did not mention Ukraine. It said China is willing to give strong support to Russia for matters related to its core interests, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Xi, the son of a Communist revolutionary who has praised the jewels of Russian literature in public, and Putin, who grew up in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, and came of age in the Soviet-era KGB, said they would work together. While Xi has now met Putin in person 39 times since becoming China's president in 2013, he has yet to meet Joe Biden in person since the latter became US President in 2021.
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