Russian President Vladmir Putin will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday amid rising tensions with the West over Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China ahead of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony on Friday. Putin sat down with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in a rare in-person meeting, where both leaders issued a statement opposing a “further enlargement of NATO”.

Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted a banquet Saturday for diplomats attending the Winter Olympics, including Russia’s Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Mohamed Bin Salman.

Russia has been given the green light to export wheat grown across the country to China, in a breakthrough that could increase competition for sales from Europe and North America.

What people are saying?

Amanda Atherton  Russia randomly making Ukraine feel uncomfortable by camping out on the border was already embarrassing. The idea of China helping ‘someone’ (Russia) make ‘someone else’ (Ukraine) even more uncomfortable is double-embarrassing.

Harold1 You can’t be embarrassed if you have no shame. Both countries are essentially a government of one. If they have no shame, how can their countries be embarrassed about the actions taken by…the one?