{"id":53707,"date":"2023-03-23T09:47:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T00:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/xi-jinping-trip-moscow-didnt-impress-west-but-his-most-important-audience-is-at-home-china"},"modified":"2023-03-23T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T00:47:04","slug":"xis-trip-to-moscow-didnt-impress-the-west-but-his-most-important-audience-is-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53707","title":{"rendered":"Xi\u2019s trip to Moscow didn\u2019t impress the west \u2013 but his most important audience is at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official narrative in China is that the US responds to problems militarily, while China uses dialogue, and there are signs this narrative is catching on<\/p>\n<p>As Xi Jinping returns to Beijing after his first trip to Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine, the contradictory forces that dominate the Chinese leader\u2019s relationship with Moscow are no closer to being resolved. Xi wants to be a strong ally to Vladimir Putin, Russia\u2019s president, and a global peacemaker. Both cannot be true.<\/p>\n<p>The red carpet and more \u2013 a brass band, Siberian salmon \u2013 was rolled out for Xi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/21\/putins-two-day-charm-offensive-with-xi-underlines-whos-boss\">two-day visit<\/a> to Moscow. Xi and Putin raised a glass to the \u201cdeepening of the Russian-Chinese partnership\u201d. As well as shared political and economic interests, the relationship is also characterised to an unusual degree by the personal bond between Xi and Putin. Xi has described the Russian president as his \u201cbest friend\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/21\/10-years-strengthening-ties-between-putin-xi-china-russia\">has said<\/a> that their characters are alike.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/xi-jinping-trip-moscow-didnt-impress-west-but-his-most-important-audience-is-at-home-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official narrative in China is that the US responds to problems militarily, while China uses dialogue, and there are signs this narrative is catching onAs Xi Jinping returns to Beijing after his first trip to Russia since the start of the war in Uk&#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":[41,50,419,930,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-russia","category-ukraine","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\/53707","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=53707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53708,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53707\/revisions\/53708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}