{"id":48518,"date":"2022-09-15T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/15\/putin-thanks-xi-china-balanced-stance-on-ukraine-invasion-russia"},"modified":"2022-09-16T02:08:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:08:55","slug":"putin-thanks-xi-for-chinas-balanced-stance-on-ukraine-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48518","title":{"rendered":"Putin tells Xi he understands China\u2019s \u2018questions and concerns\u2019 over Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian leader seems keen to curry favour with Chinese president as battlefield setbacks and sanctions bite<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/sep\/15\/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-flooding-in-kryvyi-rih-after-missiles-hit-dam-at-zelenskiys-home-town\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">See all our Ukraine coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vladimir Putin has told<strong> <\/strong>Xi Jinping that he understands China\u2019s \u201cquestions and concerns\u201d about the war in Ukraine, in a rare nod to tensions between the two states caused by the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks came as Xi and Putin met on Thursday for the first time since the war began, at a summit in Uzbekistan where the Russian president was expected to court the Chinese leader personally as an ally in his conflict with the west.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/15\/putin-thanks-xi-china-balanced-stance-on-ukraine-invasion-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian leader seems keen to curry favour with Chinese president as battlefield setbacks and sanctions biteRussia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest updatesSee all our Ukraine coverageVladimir Putin has told Xi Jinping that he understands China\u2019s \u201cquestions and conc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"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":[41,50,419,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-russia","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48518","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48526,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48518\/revisions\/48526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}