Chinese leader Xi Jinping left Moscow on Wednesday morning, wrapping up a three-day trip that Beijing billed as a mission for peace.
Xi and President Vladimir Putin signed more than a dozen of agreements on Tuesday after what Xi described as “candid, friendly, and fruitful” talks in the Kremlin, cementing the “no limits” partnership the two leaders declared last February.
Putin praised Xi’s peace proposals, a 12-point blueprint released last month that was largely dismissed by the West as a ploy to buy Putin more time to regroup and solidify his hold on occupied territory.
Standing alongside the Russian President, Xi claimed the communist regime maintains an “impartial position” in the Ukraine war, presenting himself as a neutral broker to mediate an end to the conflict….