Putin said ties between the two countries had reached ‘new frontiers’ and confirmed a summit with Chinese President Xi Jingping. Images showed Wang and Putin exchanging a firm handshake and sitting across the table from each other during their meeting on Wednesday. Others showed Wang, the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy official, looking relaxed as he walked with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Ties between the two had reached “new frontiers”, he said, confirming that Chinese President Xi Jinping might soon travel to Moscow for a summit. The US and NATO have recently expressed concern that China might provide arms or other support to Russia’s war, although China has denied having any such plan.
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