{"id":53585,"date":"2023-03-20T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/xi-set-to-visit-russia-in-trip-that-will-reaffirm-ties-with-putin-china"},"modified":"2023-03-20T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T01:00:08","slug":"good-old-friend-putin-offers-praise-for-xi-ahead-of-first-trip-to-russia-since-ukraine-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53585","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Good old friend\u2019: Putin offers praise for Xi ahead of first trip to Russia since Ukraine invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president lauds Xi ahead of meeting, while Beijing calls for a \u2018rational way\u2019 out of the crisis<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin has praised \u201cgood old friend\u201d Xi Jinping in a newspaper article published in China on the eve of a state visit by the Chinese president<strong> <\/strong>that will reaffirm the leaders\u2019 strong ties and provide Moscow with an opportunity to emphasise that it has not been isolated by the global community.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders, who are believed to share a strong personal relationship, will meet one-on-one on Monday, followed by an informal lunch, Putin\u2019s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/xi-set-to-visit-russia-in-trip-that-will-reaffirm-ties-with-putin-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president lauds Xi ahead of meeting, while Beijing calls for a \u2018rational way\u2019 out of the crisisVladimir Putin has praised \u201cgood old friend\u201d Xi Jinping in a newspaper article published in China on the eve of a state visit by the Chinese presiden&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3645,"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":[41,50,221,419,930,47,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","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\/53585","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\/3645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53586,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53585\/revisions\/53586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}