Xi Jinping’s China Increasingly Weary of Vladimir Putin’s Drawn-Out War.
The fact that the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs met, on September 22, 2022, his Ukrainian counterpart, has nothing trivial.
The meeting in Samarkand on September 15-16, 2022, of the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO, founded in the early 2000s by China and Russia as a counterweight to Western international organizations) showed that Vladimir Putin still has friends in the world, despite his military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
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