The Kremlin announced on Thursday that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will “soon” pay a visit to China, the country where the president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, is currently on an official visit, informs EFE, taken over by Agerpres.
“It can be said that the preparations for the visit are almost over, we are in the final phase. It will take place soon,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at the daily press conference.
The actual preparation of this visit was handled by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who visited Beijing in mid-April, when he was received by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Putin announced on May 9 that during his upcoming visit to China, the two countries intend to take an important step in cooperation in the field of oil and natural gas, an area in which Moscow wants to increase its exports to Beijing.
“I will be very pleased if we manage to resolve this issue during the visit,” he said at the time. Putin also said that it is “very important” that the relations between the US and China continue, an aspect that he qualified as “a factor of stability”.
During their last phone call in February, Putin and Xi discussed tensions over Iran and called for increased cooperation with Venezuela and Cuba.
Putin and Xi, who have met more than 40 times since 2013, last met in September 2025 in Beijing.
Xi Jinping's warning to Trump
Donald Trump is now in Beijing for direct talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Despite a lavish welcome given to the American leader, the issue of Taiwan remains one that generates tensions between Washington and Beijing.
The Chinese leader believes that Taiwan is the most important issue facing him and that if it is not handled properly, it could push the whole relationship between the US and China into an extremely dangerous situation, write Reuters and New York Times.
Chinese President Xi Jinping told US leader Donald Trump that trade talks were making progress at the start of a two-day summit on Thursday and Friday in Beijing, but warned that disagreements over Taiwan could lead relations down a dangerous path and even lead to conflict.
Xi's remarks on Beijing-claimed Taiwan came during a closed-door meeting between the leaders of the world's two largest economies that lasted more than two hours, China's Foreign Ministry said.
They represented a harsh – if not unprecedented – warning in an event full of pomp that seemed rather friendly and relaxed, writes Reuters.
The US side's summary of the talks did not mention Taiwan at all.
Instead, it focused on the leaders' shared desire to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, effectively closed because of the war with Iran, and Xi's apparent interest in buying American oil to reduce China's dependence on Middle Eastern supplies.
