{"id":6777,"date":"2026-05-19T02:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2026-05-19T02:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:21:55","slug":"chinese-president-xi-jinping-and-russian-president-vladimir-putin-are-expected-to-hold-high-level-talks-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6777","title":{"rendered":"Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to hold high-level talks in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to hold high-level talks during Putin\u2019s upcoming state visit to China this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">According to China\u2019s Foreign Ministry, the two leaders will exchange views on bilateral relations, strategic cooperation, and major international and regional issues of mutual concern. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The Kremlin said the visit will focus on strengthening the \u201cstrategic partnership\u201d between Moscow and Beijing, including economic cooperation, energy projects, trade, and geopolitical coordination. Russian officials also indicated that discussions may include the proposed \u201cPower of Siberia 2\u201d gas pipeline project linking Russia and China. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Chinese officials described the visit as an effort to deepen cooperation and \u201cinject more stability and positive energy into the world\u201d amid growing global uncertainty. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The summit comes only days after U.S. President Donald Trump completed his own visit to Beijing, highlighting China\u2019s increasing diplomatic importance in global affairs. Analysts say the Xi-Putin meeting will likely address the Ukraine conflict, U.S.-China relations, Taiwan, energy security, and coordination within BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Reports also note that trade between China and Russia has grown significantly since Western sanctions were imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine war, making China one of Russia\u2019s most important economic partners.\u00a0<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_260518_162003_457.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to hold high-level talks during Putin\u2019s upcoming state visit to China this week. According to China\u2019s Foreign Ministry, the two leaders will exchange views on bilateral relations, strategic cooperation, and major international and regional issues of mutual concern. The Kremlin said the visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IKZIVBL465MX7LFG3VDRXOT2JY.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6779,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions\/6779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}