Putin arrives in China to deepen strategic partnership with Xi Jinping amid rising tensions over Ukraine

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Follow us on Image Source : REUTERS (FILE) Russian President Vladimir Putin with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Beijing: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China on Tuesday for a two-day state visit for talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that Kremlin hopes will deepen a strategic partnership between the two most powerful geopolitical rivals of the United States. This is Putin's first foreign trip since he began his fifth term in office and is testimony to the "no limits" partnership announced with China in 2022. The two continent-sized authoritarian states, increasingly in dispute with democracies and NATO, seek to...