Putin’s state visit to China scheduled for this week

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Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit China for two days. This will be Putin’s first foreign trip since his fifth term. Russia and China are in dispute with democracies and NATO. Advertisement The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a two-day state visit to China this week. It stated that Putin will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his visit, which is scheduled to start on Thursday. In a statement, the Kremlin confirmed the trip and stated that Putin was going on Xi’s invitation. It noted that this would be Putin’s first...