Xi Jinping arrives in Uzbekistan … Putin and Ukraine meet for the first time since the war broke out

China, Russia, anti-US link is likely to strengthen strategic cooperation on the Taiwan issue and the war in Ukraine

After visiting Central Asia for the first time in 32 months, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Uzbekistan after Kazakhstan.

Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, said Xi arrived in Uzbekistan that night after completing a state visit to Kazakhstan on 14 (local time).

Xi will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, while holding a state visit to Uzbekistan on the 15th and 16th, including a bilateral summit with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

SCO was launched in 2001 led by China and Russia and is a political, economic and security advisory body with eight member countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan.

Although Iran has actually completed the formal accession process, the SCO will also discuss the issue of expanding its borders at this summit.

Xi will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will attend the SCO meeting side by side, on the 15th, the Russian side said.

The two leaders, who have met for the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine, should strengthen their will for strategic cooperation with the anti-US as a link against the backdrop of the protracted war in Ukraine, the intensification of the conflict between the United States and China over Taiwan, and the strengthening of US military and economic controls in China.

In particular, by directly or indirectly supporting each other’s positions on the war in Ukraine and the Taiwan issue, it is expected that the United States, which is on the other side of the two issues, will be controlled.

This is the first face-to-face meeting between the leaders of China and Russia in more than seven months since the meeting held in Beijing on the opening day of the Beijing Winter Olympics in early February.

/ yunhap news

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