Putin’s trip to Beijing may not have gained him as many trade benefits as he had hoped.
- Senior Lecturer in International Peace & Security, King's College London
China and Russia have jointly criticised the west, as well as pledging economic and security co-operation.
Putin is planning to bring a mass tourism industry to Russia’s wild far east.
The forum made it clear that Russia is increasingly becoming a client state for China.
China is looking at how the Ukraine war could end, and working out just what place Beijing wants in a post-war world.
China’s rocky relationship with the US may influence the way it reacts to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It remains to be seen what the reset of the relations between the two countries will actually mean for the rest of the world.
They are hardly ‘new best friends’, but China and Russia have plenty of common interests – and pressure points.
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