{"id":52850,"date":"2023-02-22T22:52:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T13:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/china-russia-reaffirm-close-ties-putin-meets-top-diplomat-wang-yi"},"modified":"2023-02-22T22:52:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T13:52:59","slug":"china-and-russia-reaffirm-close-ties-as-putin-meets-top-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52850","title":{"rendered":"China and Russia reaffirm close ties as Putin meets top diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On eve of Ukraine invasion anniversary Russian leader says China relations \u2018proceeding as planned\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/feb\/22\/russia-ukraine-war-live-biden-to-meet-nato-secretary-in-poland-russian-military-responds-to-wagner-chiefs-treason-claim\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s top diplomat, Wang Yi, has met Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as China and Russia reaffirm their close bilateral relationship just days before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/who-is-winning-in-ukraine-and-what-will-happen-next\">first anniversary<\/a> of the start of the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>In brief televised remarks Wang said China and Russia were ready to deepen their strategic cooperation. Earlier on Wednesday, Wang met Sergei Lavrov, Russia\u2019s foreign minister, where he said he expected to reach a \u201cnew consensus\u201d on advancing the relationship between the two allies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/china-russia-reaffirm-close-ties-putin-meets-top-diplomat-wang-yi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On eve of Ukraine invasion anniversary Russian leader says China relations \u2018proceeding as planned\u2019Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updatesChina\u2019s top diplomat, Wang Yi, has met Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as China and Russia reaffirm their close bilatera&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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":[41,50,221,419,930,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52850","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52862,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52850\/revisions\/52862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}