{"id":11758,"date":"2022-09-14T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/?p=11758"},"modified":"2022-09-14T21:21:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:21:23","slug":"chinas-xi-in-first-trip-since-covid-to-discuss-ukraine-war-with-putin-at-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/chinas-xi-in-first-trip-since-covid-to-discuss-ukraine-war-with-putin-at-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s Xi in first trip since Covid, to discuss Ukraine war with Putin at summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

China’s leader Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin will discuss the war in Ukraine and other “international and regional topics” at their meeting later this week, the Kremlin says.<\/p>\n

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The two will meet in Uzbekistan at a summit that will show an “alternative” to the Western world, the Kremlin said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Xi is making his first trip overseas since the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He is seeking a historic third term while\u00a0Mr Putin’s relations with the West are at rock bottom<\/a>\u00a0over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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BBC<\/a> reported that, Mr Xi made his first stop in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, where he landed in the capital Nursultan for the first leg of his three-day trip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He then travelled to Uzbekistan to meet Mr Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Samarkand, which will run from 15-16 September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Putin will also meet other leaders including those of India, Pakistan, Turkey and Iran – but his meeting with China’s leader “is of particular importance”, said Kremlin foreign policy spokesman Yuri Ushakov.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said the summit was taking place “against the background of large-scale political changes”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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China and Russia have long sought to position the SCO, founded in 2001 with four ex-Soviet Central Asian nations, as an alternative to Western multilateral groups.<\/p>\n

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The SCO meeting comes amid fresh clashes on the border between two of its members, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Reports say at least one border guard was killed and two injured – their nationalities are not known.<\/p>\n

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Sporadic clashes between the two countries, over a water dispute and other issues, broke out last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Xi’s visit comes amid a\u00a0fresh set of lockdowns<\/a>\u00a0in China, where his zero Covid policy is still in place. While the rest of the world has opened up, Beijing continues to shut down entire cities and provinces every time there is a rise in cases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Xi\u00a0last left China in January 2020 to visit Myanmar<\/a>\u00a0– just days before the first lockdown came into effect in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He has remained in China since then, leaving the mainland only once – in July this year to visit Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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