China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, begins on Monday a four-day trip to Russia during which both nations are expected to pledge deeper mutual political trust, readying for a possible landmark visit by President Vladimir Putin to Beijing in October.
Wang, who heads the foreign ministry as well as the ruling Communist Party's foreign affairs office, will meet Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev for annual security talks, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.
He is also expected to lay the groundwork for Putin's visit to the Chinese capital for the third Belt and Road Forum after anPutin attended China's first two Belt and Road Forums in 2017 and 2019.against him on grounds of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine., but did not explicitly confirm that he would travel to China again.
The warrant, issued just days ahead of Xi's visit to Russia, obligates the court's 123 member states to arrest Putin and transfer him to the Hague for trial if he enters their territory.Wang last visited Russia in February on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, alarming the
, which accused the two nations at the time of sharing a vision in which "borders could be redrawn by force".White HouseThe weekend talks were the latest in a series of high-level meetings between U.S. and Chinese officials that could lay the foundation for a meeting this year between Xi and U.S. President Joe Biden.
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