{"id":73818,"date":"2025-09-03T02:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/02\/vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-russia-china-ties-kim-jong-un-beijing-parade"},"modified":"2025-09-03T02:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:10:54","slug":"putin-hails-ties-with-china-as-kim-jong-un-arrives-in-beijing-on-eve-of-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73818","title":{"rendered":"Putin hails ties with China as Kim Jong-un arrives in Beijing on eve of parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president says relations at \u2018unprecedentedly high level\u2019 as dozens of leaders gather for Victory Day events<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin has hailed Russia\u2019s \u201cunprecedentedly\u201d high level of ties with China, as dozens of leaders including the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, arrived in Beijing on the eve of a massive military parade intended to showcase a Chinese-led global order.<\/p>\n<p>Putin called China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, a \u201cdear friend\u201d after the two held talks at the Great Hall of the People and then at Xi\u2019s personal residence. \u201cOur close communication reflects the strategic nature of Russia-China relations, which are at an unprecedentedly high level,\u201d Putin told Xi, according to a video on the Kremlin\u2019s Telegram channel. \u201cWe were always together then, and we remain together now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/02\/vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-russia-china-ties-kim-jong-un-beijing-parade\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president says relations at \u2018unprecedentedly high level\u2019 as dozens of leaders gather for Victory Day eventsVladimir Putin has hailed Russia\u2019s \u201cunprecedentedly\u201d high level of ties with China, as dozens of leaders including the North Korean dicta&#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":[41,50,62,421,1385,433,3388,419,1229,61,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-india","category-kim-jong-un","category-mongolia","category-narendra-modi","category-robert-fico","category-russia","category-slovakia","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/73818","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=73818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73819,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73818\/revisions\/73819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}