Vladimir Putin is to arrive in Beijing on Tuesday for talks he hopes will lead to a substantial increase in Russia’s energy exports to China, further boosting relations that the Kremlin says are already at “an unprecedentedly high level”.
Putin’s trip to China, which the foreign ministry in Beijing said would be his 25th to the country, highlights his close ties with Xi just days after Donald Trump made the first visit by a US president to China in nine years.
The long-delayed 50bn cubic metre-a-year Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline, intended to run east to China from Russian gasfields that once served Europe, would be a focus of “serious” and “very detailed” discussions between Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the Kremlin said.
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