{"id":6797,"date":"2026-05-20T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:12:22","slug":"chinese-president-xi-jinping-and-russian-president-vladimir-putin-met-in-beijing-for-high-level-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6797","title":{"rendered":"Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Beijing for high-level talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Beijing, May 20, 2026 &#8211;\u00a0 Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Beijing on Wednesday for high-level talks focused on strengthening China-Russia relations, energy cooperation, trade, and global geopolitical issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The summit took place at the Great Hall of the People, where Xi welcomed Putin with an official ceremony and private discussions before broader delegation talks. Both leaders praised their countries\u2019 strategic partnership, calling ties between Beijing and Moscow stronger than ever amid growing tensions with Western nations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Energy cooperation was a major focus of the meeting, including discussions on the long-delayed Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline project. The two sides also signed several agreements covering trade, technology, scientific research, and economic cooperation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The meeting comes just days after former U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s visit to Beijing, drawing international attention to China\u2019s balancing strategy between Washington and Moscow. Analysts say the Xi-Putin summit highlights the growing China-Russia partnership as both countries seek closer coordination on international affairs.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_260520_041046_220.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, May 20, 2026 &#8211;\u00a0 Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Beijing on Wednesday for high-level talks focused on strengthening China-Russia relations, energy cooperation, trade, and global geopolitical issues. The summit took place at the Great Hall of the People, where Xi welcomed Putin with an official ceremony and private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6798,"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-6797","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\/FB_IMG_1779264259836.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797","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=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions\/6799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}