{"id":264289,"date":"2026-05-20T08:32:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=264289"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:02:17","slug":"putin-says-close-moscow-beijing-ties-especially-important-amid-global-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/264289\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin says close Moscow-Beijing ties especially important amid global tensions"},"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>Russian President Vladimir Putin is on an official visit to China, where he held talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>Here are highlights from Putin&rsquo;s statements made during the meeting with Xi Jinping:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trade turnover between Russia and China has increased more than 30-fold over the past quarter century.<\/li>\n<li>Russia and China will continue their visa-free travel regime.<\/li>\n<li>Putin invited Xi Jinping to visit Russia next year.<\/li>\n<li>Close ties between Moscow and Beijing are especially important given the tense situation on the international stage.<\/li>\n<li>Putin said he will attend the APEC summit in Shenzhen in November.<\/li>\n<li>Russia and China support cultural and civilizational diversity, as well as respect for the sovereign development of states.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin is on an official visit to China, where he held talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Here are highlights from Putin&rsquo;s statements made during the meeting with Xi Jinping: Trade turnover between Russia and China has increased more than 30-fold over the past quarter century. Russia and China will continue their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":264228,"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-264289","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\/264289","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=264289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264290,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264289\/revisions\/264290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}