{"id":53646,"date":"2023-03-21T19:57:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T10:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/21\/10-years-strengthening-ties-between-putin-xi-china-russia"},"modified":"2023-03-21T19:57:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T10:57:13","slug":"he-is-my-best-friend-10-years-of-strengthening-ties-between-putin-and-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53646","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He is my best friend\u2019: 10 years of strengthening ties between Putin and Xi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian and Chinese leaders have met more than 40 times in recent years, fortifying personal and formal relations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/mar\/21\/russia-ukraine-war-live-russian-cruise-missiles-destroyed-in-crimea-says-ukraine-xi-and-putin-to-hold-formal-talks\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A visit by China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, to Moscow this week has shone a light on his strengthening relationship with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders have met more than 40 times in recent years, growing increasingly familiar, and now refer to each other as \u201cdear friends\u201d. Xi has been described as a great friend by other world leaders before, including Robert Mugabe and Donald Trump, but does not always reciprocate the compliment like he has with Putin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/21\/10-years-strengthening-ties-between-putin-xi-china-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian and Chinese leaders have met more than 40 times in recent years, fortifying personal and formal relationsRussia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updatesA visit by China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, to Moscow this week has shone a light on his strength&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[50,419,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-russia","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\/53646","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53647,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53646\/revisions\/53647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}