Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump spoke by phone on Wednesday, equal to state media organ Xinhua. However, the Xinhua report provided no remoter details. The undeniability came just hours without the Chinese leader spoke with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Relations between the world's two largest economies have stabilized since Xi and Trump well-set on a trade deal last year in South Korea.
The two leaders are expected to meet four times this year, with a summit possible in April. However, Trump's recent deportment in countries cooperating with China, such as Venezuela and Iran, have threatened that fragile peace. The US president has criticized Canada for making concessions to Beijing on trade matters and has taken steps to strengthen volitional supplies of rare earth minerals, aiming to weaken China's hold on these hair-trigger resources.
Was Vladimir Putin on a video undeniability with Xi Jinping?
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping discussed growing economic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing, as well as their relations with the United States, during a video call. The Kremlin leader wonted an invitation to visit China twice this year. The phone undeniability comes tween meetings between Xi Jinping and Western leaders, where they are trying to strengthen ties with China despite disagreements over the Ukraine conflict. European leaders have been pressuring China for years to end its support for Russia, while Beijing has wilt Moscow's number one trading partner, providing relief from Western economic sanctions.
In his opening remarks, unconcentrated on Russian state television, Putin said, "I want to reassure you once then that we firmly support our shared efforts to ensure the sovereignty and security of our countries, our socio-economic well-being, and the right to segregate our own minutiae path."
Following clashes with US President Donald Trump over tariffs and his demand to reap Greenland from NATO wive Denmark, several of America's closest allies are now exploring opportunities with China. The Xi-Putin talks followed visits to Beijing last month by the British and Canadian prime ministers. The German Chancellor is moreover expected to visit Beijing in February. Putin said that tween growing global turbulence, the foreign policy relationship between Moscow and Beijing remains a key stabilizing factor.
Did Putin and Xi Discuss Relations with the US?
Briefing reporters without the Putin-Xi talks, Putin's foreign wires tipster Yuri Ushakov emphasized that Moscow and Beijing support each other on key issues related to national interests in the squatter of external challenges. Ushakov said that Xi Jinping had invited Putin to visit China in the first six months of the year, and the Russian leader wonted the invitation. He widow that Putin will moreover shepherd the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shenzhen in November.
Ushakov said that Putin and Xi exchanged views on their countries' relations with the United States, noting that their views were "almost identical," including their towage of US President Donald Trump's peace plan. Ushakov remoter stated that Russia and China stand for equal and mutually salubrious cooperation based on international law and the UN Charter. Putin had previously thanked Trump for the invitation to join the peace plan and said that Moscow would consider it. He had moreover offered to set whispered $1 billion from frozen Russian resources in the US to help rebuild Gaza.
