KYIV, UKRAINE: Chinese leader Xi Jinping has left Moscow, concluding a three-day visit, shortly after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida left Kyiv.
Kishida paid a surprise visit to Kiev on Tuesday, diverting some of the attention from Xi’s trip to Moscow where he promoted Beijing’s peace proposal for Ukraine, which Western countries have already rejected.
Xi’s visit gave a strong political boost to Russian President Vladimir Putin just days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader for alleged involvement in the kidnappings of thousands of Ukrainian children.
After the talks, Putin and Xi issued joint statements pledging to further strengthen their “strategic cooperation”, expand cooperation in energy, high-tech industries and other fields, and expand cooperation. use of their currencies in mutual trade to reduce dependence on the West.
They said they would expand military cooperation and conduct more joint sea and air patrols, but there was no mention of Chinese arms supplies to Russia, a prospect that the United States and other allies Westerners feared.
Kishida paid a surprise visit to Kiev on Tuesday, diverting some of the attention from Xi’s trip to Moscow where he promoted Beijing’s peace proposal for Ukraine, which Western countries have already rejected.
Xi’s visit gave a strong political boost to Russian President Vladimir Putin just days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader for alleged involvement in the kidnappings of thousands of Ukrainian children.
After the talks, Putin and Xi issued joint statements pledging to further strengthen their “strategic cooperation”, expand cooperation in energy, high-tech industries and other fields, and expand cooperation. use of their currencies in mutual trade to reduce dependence on the West.
They said they would expand military cooperation and conduct more joint sea and air patrols, but there was no mention of Chinese arms supplies to Russia, a prospect that the United States and other allies Westerners feared.
