{"id":77390,"date":"2026-05-18T12:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/18\/xi-jinping-vladimir-putin-china-russia-four-days-after-donald-trump-us-visit"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:10:44","slug":"xi-jinping-prepares-to-welcome-vladimir-putin-to-china-four-days-after-hosting-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77390","title":{"rendered":"Xi prepares to welcome Putin to China four days after hosting Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese state media say Beijing emerging as \u2018focal point of global diplomacy\u2019 with Russian leader arriving on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin exchanged \u201ccongratulatory letters\u201d on Sunday ahead of the Russian president\u2019s visit to Beijing this week, four days after Donald Trump left China after a high-stakes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/16\/donald-trump-xi-jinping-summit-china\">summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Xi said bilateral cooperation between Russia and China had \u201ccontinuously deepened and solidified\u201d, Chinese state media reported, with this year marking the 30th anniversary of the two countries\u2019 strategic partnership.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/18\/xi-jinping-vladimir-putin-china-russia-four-days-after-donald-trump-us-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese state media say Beijing emerging as \u2018focal point of global diplomacy\u2019 with Russian leader arriving on TuesdayXi Jinping and Vladimir Putin exchanged \u201ccongratulatory letters\u201d on Sunday ahead of the Russian president\u2019s visit to Beijing this week,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"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":[41,50,419,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-russia","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\/77390","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\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77392,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77390\/revisions\/77392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}