{"id":69045,"date":"2025-01-22T00:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/21\/putin-and-xi-make-show-of-unity-in-call-hours-after-trump-inauguration"},"modified":"2025-01-22T00:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:13:09","slug":"putin-and-xi-hold-video-call-in-show-of-unity-hours-after-trump-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69045","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Xi hold video call in show of unity hours after Trump inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timing may show two leaders want to coordinate approach in engaging with new US administration over Ukraine<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/21\/donald-trump-inauguration-presidency-executive-orders-pardons-day-two-live-blog\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, held a video call with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in a symbolic display of unity just hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the US.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Putin highlighted the close ties between the two countries, stating that their relations were based on \u201cshared interests, equality, and mutual benefit\u201c, calling Xi his \u201cdear friend\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/21\/putin-and-xi-make-show-of-unity-in-call-hours-after-trump-inauguration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timing may show two leaders want to coordinate approach in engaging with new US administration over UkraineUS politics live \u2013 latest updatesThe Russian president, Vladimir Putin, held a video call with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in a symbolic&#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":[41,50,415,419,930,45,47,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69045","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=69045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69046,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69045\/revisions\/69046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}