Chinese President #Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir #Putin in #Moscow on March 20 and offered a more reserved vision for Russian-Chinese relations than what #Putin was likely seeking. 🧵(1/6) isw.pub/UkrWar032023
https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1637993575353929729
2/ #Xi and #Putin touted the strength of Chinese-Russian relations in their meeting on March 20, but offered differing interpretations of the scale of future relations in articles they published on March 19.
3/ #Putin published an article in Chinese state media arguing that #Russia & #China are building a partnership for the formation of a multipolar world order in the face of the collective West’s seeking of domination & the US policy of dual containment against China and Russia.
4/ #Xi offered a less aggressive overarching goal for Russian-Chinese relations in his article published in Russian state media outlet Rossiskaya Gazeta noting that #Russia & #China are generally pursuing a multipolar world order but not specifically against an adversarial West.
5/ #Xi instead focused heavily on presenting #China as a viable third-party mediator to the war in #Ukraine whose plan for negotiations ”reflects the unity of views of the world community on overcoming the #Ukrainian crisis.”
6/ #Putin wrote that Russia welcomes #China’s willingness to "play a constructive role in crisis management" regarding the war in #Ukraine, but Putin likely was hoping for #Xi to adopt a similarly aggressive rhetorical line against the West. isw.pub/UkrWar032023
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