Xi Jinping will be leaving China for more than two years this week for a trip to Central Asia where he will meet with Russian Vladimir Putin just a month before solidifying his place as the strongest Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.
Xi’s first overseas trip since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrates that he is confident both of holding power as we enter the third period and of his role as world leader at the time of the rift.
Amid Russia’s confrontation with the West over Ukraine, the Taiwan crisis and a faltering global economy, Xi will pay a state visit to Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
The Chinese president will meet with Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in the former Silk Road city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the Kremlin. China confirmed the trip on Monday.
Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign policy adviser, told reporters last week that the Russian president is expected to meet with Xi at the summit. He refused to give details of the Kremlin negotiations.
source: Noticias
