Russian President Vladimir Putin met China’s leader Xi Jinping at the Kremlin on March 20, where they voiced their mutual admiration and praised their nations’ close relations.
Xi arrived in Moscow earlier the same day for a landmark state visit, which is slated to last until March 22.
Putin began the meeting by welcoming Xi and praising China, which in recent years had made a “colossal leap forward in terms of development,” he said.
China, Putin asserted, had established an “effective system of economic development,” which he went on to describe—in a possible dig at the West—as “more effective than those of many other countries.”…