{"id":41329,"date":"2022-02-03T21:44:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T12:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/03\/xi-putin-summit-russia-inches-closer-china-new-cold-war-looms"},"modified":"2022-02-03T21:44:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T12:44:31","slug":"xi-putin-summit-russia-inches-closer-to-china-as-new-cold-war-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41329","title":{"rendered":"Xi-Putin summit: Russia inches closer to China as \u2018new cold war\u2019 looms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifty years after Nixon and Mao\u2019s historic handshake, the geopolitical world order is again being reshaped<\/p>\n

When the leaders of China and Russia meet in Beijing this Friday shortly before the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, observers of the bilateral relationship will be looking for insights into how this 21st century quasi-alliance is reshaping the postwar world order.<\/p>\n

It was 50 years ago this month, on 21 February 1972, that the historic handshake<\/a> between Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong changed the geometry of the cold war. Historians called the visit \u201cthe week that changed the world\u201d. It later influenced Washington\u2019s subsequent movement towards d\u00e9tente with Moscow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fifty years after Nixon and Mao\u2019s historic handshake, the geopolitical world order is again being reshapedWhen the leaders of China and Russia meet in Beijing this Friday shortly before the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, observers of the bila…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2867,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,221,419,930,45,47,818,2523,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","category-winter-olympics-beijing-2022","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2867"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41330,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41329\/revisions\/41330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}