{"id":73725,"date":"2025-08-30T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/30\/vladimir-putin-china-visit-xi-jinping-ukraine"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:00:52","slug":"putin-embarks-on-china-visit-with-ukraine-war-top-of-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73725","title":{"rendered":"Putin embarks on China visit with Ukraine war top of agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say Putin and Xi will aim to align positions during Russian leader\u2019s unusually long stay<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin will travel to China this weekend for what the Kremlin has called a \u201ctruly unprecedented\u201d visit to his most important ally, which comes at a crunch moment in talks over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>During the trip, which is expected to stretch to close to a week \u2013 unusually long for the Russian leader \u2013 he will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, hold talks with Xi Jinping, and take in Beijing\u2019s Victory Day military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/28\/vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un-join-president-xi-chinese-military-parade-defiance-to-west\">parade<\/a> marking 80 years since Japan\u2019s defeat in the second world war, where Putin is due to be the star guest alongside North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un and leaders of Iran and Cuba.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/30\/vladimir-putin-china-visit-xi-jinping-ukraine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say Putin and Xi will aim to align positions during Russian leader\u2019s unusually long stayVladimir Putin will travel to China this weekend for what the Kremlin has called a \u201ctruly unprecedented\u201d visit to his most important ally, which comes at a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4917,"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":[41,50,221,419,930,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","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\/73725","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\/4917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73726,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73725\/revisions\/73726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}