MOSCOW, March 18 — Xi Jinping walks a diplomatic tightrope as he heads to Moscow, seeking to present China as a global peacemaker while strengthening ties with his closest ally,...
MOSCOW, March 18 — Xi Jinping walks a diplomatic tightrope as he heads to Moscow, seeking to present China as a global peacemaker while strengthening ties with his closest ally, President Vladimir Putin, who faces criminal charges over his Ukraine war.
China’s top trade partners are the United States and the European Union — among the fiercest critics of Russia’s war in Ukraine, which Moscow calls a “special military operation”. “There’s been kind of an increasingly pronounced diplomatic dance on China’s part as the war has played out,” said Andrew Small, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund.
China has provided key revenue for Moscow as its biggest buyer of oil, with bilateral trade soaring in recent months. The US and European leaders have said intelligence showed China was considering sending arms to Russia, which Beijing has denied. The Kremlin reacted with outrage. Russia says a programme under which it has brought thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia is a humanitarian campaign to protect orphans and children abandoned in the conflict zone.Business Over Blinis?Both sides have said the aim of the trip is to further strengthen their relationship and deepen economic ties. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Friday the trip was a “voyage of friendship”, “cooperation” and “peace”.
It is not clear if there will be any such photo ops this time amid more serious business and the bloody Ukraine war.
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