Chinese President Xi Jinping has held a call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and said he was pleased with Moscow’s efforts to hold a summit with the U.S. toward ending the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Friday during a phone call, during which the leaders praised Moscow-Beijing ties as a stabilizing force in international affairs.

President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke via telephone on Monday afternoon “at the request of the latter,” according to state broadcaster China Central Television.

Unlike Nixon and Kissinger’s gambit in the 1970s, the strategy threatens to divide the West.

China's President Xi Jinping spoke with his ally Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Monday, China's state media reported, on the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

You can’t be weak in the face of President Putin. It’s not you, it’s not your trademark, it’s not in your interest. How can you then be credible in the face of China if you’re weak in the face of Putin?

For President Xi Jinping, an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine brings many opportunities and one major threat: China would suddenly become the main focus of the US military.

The anniversary was being marked as U.S. policies on Russia and Ukraine shift under President Donald Trump. Here's the latest: BEIJING — China’s President Xi Jinping had a call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin Monday,

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Donald Trump that his interests were in line with European allies and that showing any weakness to Russia's Vladimir Putin would make it harder to deal with China and Iran.

President Donald Trump’s rapprochement with Russia has some experts suggesting he might be trying to do a “reverse Nixon” and isolate Beijing by courting Moscow.

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