{"id":64058,"date":"2024-05-15T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/15\/vladimir-putin-and-xi-jinping-no-limits-friendship-put-to-the-test-on-china-visit-to-china"},"modified":"2024-05-15T11:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T02:00:29","slug":"putin-and-xis-no-limits-friendship-will-be-put-to-the-test-on-state-visit-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64058","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Xi\u2019s \u2018no-limits\u2019 friendship will be put to the test on state visit to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia, shunned from the world stage, and China, subject to new US tariffs, want to pivot further from the west<\/p>\n<p>Having secured a mandate to extend his rule of Russia to three decades, Vladimir Putin is expected to travel to Beijing on Thursday<strong> <\/strong>on a state visit to meet Xi Jinping intended to shore up his most important international relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The two men toasted their \u201cno-limits\u201d friendship in February 2022 \u2013 meant as a counterweight to the global influence of the US. That partnership has increasingly come under pressure as the Biden administration sought to isolate Russia from its Chinese lifeline after the full-scale invasion in Ukraine, which began later the same month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/15\/vladimir-putin-and-xi-jinping-no-limits-friendship-put-to-the-test-on-china-visit-to-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia, shunned from the world stage, and China, subject to new US tariffs, want to pivot further from the westHaving secured a mandate to extend his rule of Russia to three decades, Vladimir Putin is expected to travel to Beijing on Thursday on a stat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4241,"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":[1854,50,419,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biden-administration","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\/64058","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\/4241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64090,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64058\/revisions\/64090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}