Putin and Xi Jinping stress their shared perception of threat the US poses to their interests

‘I don’t think the West really understands’: A Ukrainian writer on his journey from torture camp to the front line“The two sides express the strongest condemnation of the above-mentioned measures that seriously undermine regional stability and pose a direct security threat to China and Russia , and will strengthen co-ordination and co-operation to respond to the US so-called ‘dual containment’ policy towards China and Russia , which is unconstructive and hostile,” they said.

European leaders hoped that Xi would use Putin’s visit to put pressure on the Russian leader to end the war in Ukraine. But when Xi raised the idea of a truce for the duration of the Olympic Games, Putin rejected it and he later suggested that Kyiv was only interested in talking about peace now because it was faring badly on the battlefield.

Russia is not invited to next month’s peace conference in Switzerland, and China has not yet confirmed that it will attend. In their statement Xi and Putin said that to resolve the Ukraine crisis it was necessary to address its root causes. Putin repeated during his visit that a peace deal initialled by both sides in Istanbul in April 2022 but abandoned by Volodymyr Zelenskiy under western pressure could form the basis of a new agreement. If the Swiss peace conference nudges Zelenskiy into shifting from his current negotiating position, Xi could yet play a role in helping Putin to reciprocate.

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