{"id":77405,"date":"2026-05-19T22:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/19\/vladimir-putin-beijing-china-state-visit-xi-jinping-russia"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:28:36","slug":"vladimir-putin-to-arrive-in-beijing-for-state-visit-hot-on-heels-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77405","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin arrives in Beijing for state visit hot on heels of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president is welcomed to Beijing with an honour guard after saying relations with China have reached an \u2018unprecedented level\u2019  <\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing for a state visit, four days after Donald Trump left China.<\/p>\n<p>Putin was greeted by China\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi, when he landed on Tuesday evening, with an honour guard alongside Chinese youths waving China and Russia\u2019s national flags in a welcome ceremony on the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/19\/vladimir-putin-beijing-china-state-visit-xi-jinping-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president is welcomed to Beijing with an honour guard after saying relations with China have reached an \u2018unprecedented level\u2019  Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing for a state visit, four days after Donald Trump left China.Putin was greeted by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4733,"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":[41,50,221,419,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","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\/77405","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\/4733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77420,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77405\/revisions\/77420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}