{"id":56461,"date":"2023-07-05T21:46:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T12:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/05\/kremlin-china-president-xi-jining-vladimir-putin-nuclear-weapons-ukraine-russia"},"modified":"2023-07-05T21:46:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T12:46:58","slug":"kremlin-denies-chinas-president-urged-putin-not-to-use-nuclear-arms-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56461","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin denies China\u2019s president urged Putin not to use nuclear arms in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jining reportedly warned Russian counterpart against using nuclear weapons on visit to Moscow in March<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/russia+ukraine\">See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Kremlin has denied a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c5ce76df-9b1b-4dfc-a619-07da1d40cbd3\">report<\/a> that the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, had personally warned his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I can\u2019t confirm it,\u201d Putin\u2019s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters on Wednesday when asked about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c5ce76df-9b1b-4dfc-a619-07da1d40cbd3\">Financial Times<\/a> report that said Xi delivered the message when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/xi-jinping-vladimir-putin-moscow-ukraine-war\">visited<\/a> Moscow in March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/05\/kremlin-china-president-xi-jining-vladimir-putin-nuclear-weapons-ukraine-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jining reportedly warned Russian counterpart against using nuclear weapons on visit to Moscow in MarchSee all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageThe Kremlin has denied a report that the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, had personally warned his Russian co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3503,"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":[41,50,221,441,419,930,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-ukraine","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\/56461","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\/3503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56469,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56461\/revisions\/56469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}