BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping headed for Russia today to mark a new era of friendship and reinforce economic ties that had benefited from Moscow’s isolation from the West.Due to arrive in the early afternoon, Xi will be received with full honours.He will have talks in the Kremlin with President Vladimir Putin before attending a formal reception and in the evening he will attend a night out at the Bolshoi theatre.The visit comes five years after Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 led to a serious rift with its Western partners and subsequent turn toward its neighbour to the east.From …read more
Source: theSun
