Chinese President Xi Jinping held a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin via a video link on Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The talks came hours after US President Donald Trump returned to the White House and said he would meet Putin “very soon”.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed to take his country’s ties with Russia to a new level this year in a video conference with counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, hours after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is dispatching a high-ranking official to the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump 's inauguration, in lieu of Ambassador Xie Feng, in a move that breaks tradition. Newsweek has reached out to the Trump team and Chinese Foreign Ministry by email with requests for comment.
In video call, Chinese leader says relations – underpinned by ‘everlasting’ good neighbourliness – are gaining renewed vitality, according to CCTV.
A variety of figures, ranging from former presidents to other world leaders, are expected to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday.
Donald Trump said he held a “very good” phone call with China’s President Xi Jinping, as the US-President elect prepares to return to the White House next week.
Chinese people on the streets of Beijing said Monday they were keeping expectations low ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump, as his second White House stint could push China-US ties into a new era of uncertainty.
On the very first full day of his second presidency, Mr Trump said the tariffs on China were still on the table in his remarks to reporters at the White House on Tuesday. The remarks came even after Mr Trump refrained from mentioning China from the countries he was looking to target immediately.
President Donald Trump is threatening to impose stiff taxes, tariffs and sanctions on Russia if an agreement isn’t reached to end the war in Ukraine.
US president offers Putin chance to negotiate peace as Volodymyr Zelensky demands American troops join Western peacekeeping force