“China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, and Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, met in Beijing on Tuesday, in a session seen as laying the groundwork for an expected visit to China by President Vladimir Putin of Russia and pushing back against mounting pressure from the United States and its allies,” the New York Times reports.
Xi Meets With Russia’s Foreign Minister
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