HONG KONG — Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed to take his country’s ties with Russia to a new level this year in a video conference with his counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, hours after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump.
The two leaders have made it an annual tradition to speak around the new year – a feature of a close personal rapport that’s helped cement a partnership between their countries that’s only grown as Putin wages war on Ukraine.
In a meeting via video link with Putin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday afternoon, Xi also stated his willingness to work together to promote the development and revitalization of the two nations and to safeguard international fairness and justice.
This was the first interaction of the leaders from both the nations in the year 2025, which proposed to enhance bilateral relations between them.
