{"id":2178,"date":"2025-08-26T12:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:48:15","slug":"russias-top-mp-delivers-putin-message-to-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/russias-top-mp-delivers-putin-message-to-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s top MP delivers Putin message to Xi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Russian president is scheduled to visit China next week for talks and to take part in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, where he delivered greetings and best wishes from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The meeting comes ahead of Putin\u2019s scheduled four-day visit to China next week.<\/p>\n<p>Volodin told Xi on Tuesday that the personal ties between the Chinese and Russian leaders have set the tone for cooperation across all areas, and committed to uphold decisions made at the leadership level of the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>He also briefed Xi on the 10th session of the inter-parliamentary commission between Russia\u2019s Federal Assembly and the National People\u2019s Congress of China, which was held earlier in the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The session was dedicated to multiple issues, including counteracting Western sanctions pressure and other external interference in the domestic affairs of Russia and China. The two sides also discussed expanding trade and economic ties, and strengthening humanitarian cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>After the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Beijing refused to join Western sanctions imposed on Moscow and has instead maintained close economic ties with Russia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One on August 15, 2025 in Maryland to travel to Alaska for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/68a247be85f5407aef3e67a9.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/623141-trump-biden-russia-china-together\/\">Trump accuses Biden of driving Russia and China closer together<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During his meeting with Volodin, Xi praised the strengthening cooperation between Russia and China and emphasized that the two countries should <em>\u201ccontinue the traditional friendship\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cdeepen strategic mutual trust.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese president described ties with Russia as among the most stable, mature, and strategically significant of major power relations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes ahead of Putin\u2019s visit to China next week, which will include large-scale talks with Xi as well as participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. According to Russian media, it will be Putin\u2019s longest foreign trip since 2014.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian president is scheduled to visit China next week for talks and to take part in the Shanghai Cooperation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}