According to the Wall Street Journal, China President Xi Jinping is getting ready to travel to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the near future.
The daily said on Tuesday that the Xi-Putin encounter was a part of a Chinese effort to play a more active role in putting an end to the year-old war. Moreover part of a push for multi-party peace talks, citing sources familiar with the plan. According to the article, China will also use the meeting to reaffirm its opposition to the use of nuclear weapons.
The Journal said that the trip’s planning is in its early stages and that the timing has not been decided. Furthermore, Xi’s visit could occur in April or early May, when Russia would be commemorating its triumph over Nazi Germany in World War Two.
Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, is now in Moscow. And is scheduled to meet with Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, on Wednesday.
Wang has intensified his calls for a negotiated agreement to end the conflict in Ukraine. It started on February 24 of last year when Russian troops invaded the nation. Wang is currently on a tour of Europe.
After similar negotiations between Manila and Washington and against the backdrop of China’s increasingly aggressive stance in asserting its wide territorial claims. In the contested waterway, the Philippines and Australia may conduct combined patrols in the South China Sea.
Beijing has advised “control” and emphasised that disagreements should be resolved via “peaceful methods”. But it has not denounced Russia’s actions or joined sanctions against Moscow led by the West.
In the meantime, tensions between China and the US have increased over matters like Hong Kong’s human rights situation and the situation in Xinjiang, in western China. As well as the US’s recent discovery of what it has called a Chinese “spy balloon” hovering over American land.
Wang reiterated the importance of the two nations’ close ties on Tuesday in a meeting with Nikolai Patrushev. Putin’s close ally and secretary of Russia’s influential Security Council.
A Russian interpreter, Wang said Patrushev, “Chinese-Russian ties are mature in character: they are rock solid and will endure any test in a changing world scenario.” These comments were broadcast on Russian official media.
In the meantime, Patrushev informed Wang that Beijing was a high priority in Russian foreign policy. Whereas the two nations needed to remain united.
The ongoing development of Russian-Chinese collaboration and interaction in the international arena is of special importance. In the context of a campaign being launched by the collective West to control both Russia and China. Patrushev was cited as saying by state media source RIA.
When Xi is in Moscow, Wang is anticipated to talk about the trip, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Putin and Wang may meet, according to the Kremlin’s hints.
