World News | Putin May Meet Senior Chinese Communist Party Officials During Moscow Trip

MOSCOW, Feb. 20 (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin may meet with the foreign policy chief of the Chinese Communist Party in Moscow, the Kremlin said Monday.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “we do not rule out” Putin meeting Wang Yi, the top foreign policy official of the Chinese Communist Party, who is visiting the Russian capital.

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Peskov praised Russia-China relations as “multifaceted and alliance in nature”.

Wang Yi’s visit to Moscow coincides with President Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and express U.S. support for Kiev on the eve of the first anniversary of Russian military operations.

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On Saturday, Wang Yi visited Russia following talks with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on the sidelines of the Munich International Security Conference.

Blinken tweeted after the meeting that he had again warned China not to provide aid to Russia in Ukraine, including helping Moscow circumvent Western sanctions imposed on Moscow.

China, which has declared an “unrestricted” friendship with Russia, has explicitly refused to criticize Moscow’s actions, accusing the US and NATO of provoking the Kremlin and slamming punitive sanctions imposed on Russia.

Russia, in turn, strongly supports China amid tensions with the United States over Taiwan.

The two countries held a series of military exercises in a show of their growing defense ties amid tensions with the United States. (Associated Press)

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