Xi Jinping sees Moscow as key to the new world order

The Chinese president arrives in Moscow on Monday for a three-day state visit aimed at strengthening relations with Vladimir Putin. A partnership dominated by the Beijing regime, which intends to rebuild the international order to its advantage.

The “new era” is going a bit awry. Arriving for a state visit to Russia from Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping intended to deepen with his Russian counterpart “relationships of comprehensive partnership and strategic relationship entering a new era”, in the words of the Kremlin, Friday. But the arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin, issued a few hours later by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the war crime of “illegal deportation” of Ukrainian children, somewhat spoils the reunion.

It is not said, however, that it weakens Xi Jinping. Admittedly, the Chinese president cultivates a closeness of reason with the head of the Kremlin. Barely appointed, it was to Putin that he had reserved his first outing abroad in March 2013. Since then, the two men have seen each other around forty times and have tightened their ties on the back of the United States, by multiplying friendship and cooperation treaties and constructive partnerships. Already, in 2001, China and Russia had created the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), in particular to oppose the hegemo