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  "path": "/news/2000686/putin-to-visit-china-on-may-19-20-to-further-strengthen-comprehensive-partnership",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T08:12:55.000Z",
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    "trip to Beijing",
    "stalemated war",
    "sending troops into Ukraine",
    "Negotiations"
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  "textContent": "Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China on May 19 for a two-day visit, hot on the heels of United States President Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing, the Kremlin said on Saturday.\n\nDuring the trip, the Russian leader will discuss with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping how to “further strengthen the comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation” between Moscow and Beijing, according to a Kremlin statement.\n\nPutin and Xi will “exchange views on key international and regional issues” and sign a joint declaration at the conclusion of their talks, it added.\n\nAs part of the visit, Putin is also scheduled to discuss economic and trade cooperation with Chinese Premier Li Qiang.\n\nThe announcement of Putin’s trip comes just after Trump wrapped up on Friday the first visit to China by a US president in nearly a decade, with the grand reception belying a roster of unresolved trade and geopolitical tensions, including over the Ukraine-Russia conflict.\n\nAlthough Trump and Xi discussed the more than four-year-long conflict — as well as the US leader’s stalemated war with Iran — the Republican president took off from China on Friday without appearing to secure a breakthrough on either front.\n\nWhile China has regularly called for talks to end the fighting, it has never condemned Russia for sending troops into Ukraine in February 2022 and presents itself as a neutral party.\n\nBeijing also denies providing Moscow with weapons and military components for its defence industry, blaming Western countries for prolonging Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II by arming Ukraine instead.\n\nAs the world’s top buyer of Russian fossil fuels, China has become Moscow’s key economic partner, especially since Western countries imposed economic sanctions on Russian oil and gas over the conflict.\n\nNegotiations to end the fighting in Ukraine, brokered by the United States, have appeared stalled since the beginning of the US-Israeli war with Iran, which broke out on February 28.\n\nMoscow has ruled out a ceasefire or comprehensive negotiations with Ukraine unless Kyiv caves to the Kremlin’s maximalist demands.",
  "title": "Putin to visit China on May 19-20 to further strengthen 'comprehensive partnership'"
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