{"id":124917,"date":"2025-01-22T15:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=124917"},"modified":"2025-01-22T16:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T12:05:17","slug":"chinese-and-russian-presidents-have-video-call-after-trumps-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/124917\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese and Russian presidents have video call after Trump\u2019s inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had a video call hours after Donald Trump was sworn in on Monday, pledging to bring bilateral ties to &ldquo;greater heights,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cg7z1rj2vdeo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> writes, citing state media on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Calling Xi a &ldquo;dear friend,&rdquo; Putin said Russia and China were building ties &ldquo;on the basis of friendship, mutual trust and support&rdquo; despite external pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Xi called on Putin to &ldquo;continue deepening strategic coordination, firming up mutual support, and safeguarding legitimate interests.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Tuesday threatened tariffs on Beijing, calling it &ldquo;an abuser,&rdquo; and warned that &ldquo;big trouble&rdquo; will come for Moscow if it does not strike a deal to end the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had a video call hours after Donald Trump was sworn in on Monday, pledging to bring bilateral ties to &ldquo;greater heights,&rdquo; the BBC writes, citing state media on both sides. Calling Xi a &ldquo;dear friend,&rdquo; Putin said Russia and China were building ties &ldquo;on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":124912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}