TASS reported today that after the Russian and Chinese Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, meet face-to-face during Putin’s visit to Beijing in early February, they are expected to issue “an important political document.”
The announcement was made at the 13th plenary session of the China-Russia Friendship Committee for Peace and Development by Xia Baolong, who heads the Chinese side of that bilateral committee, which met today in Moscow. (Xia is a high-level official, the current Vice Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the Chinese State Council). According to the Tass report, Xia said that when Putin visits China to participate in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, he “will become the first leader of a major global power to visit China since the outbreak of the pandemic. The heads of our states will conduct their first face-to-face meeting in two years, during which a detailed exchange of opinions will be held and an important political document will be approved.”
