The meeting of the "Belt and Road" Initiative will take place in the shadow of the war between Israel and Gaza. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that in Beijing this week the leaders of Russia and China, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, will discuss all aspects of bilateral relations.
Under Xi's term of "comprehensive national security," China has introduced a series of laws to protect itself against perceived threats, including laws on counterterrorism, counterintelligence, foreign NGOs, national intelligence and data security.
For Russia and Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping's visit was significant because it shows the world that Moscow, isolated and under sanctions due to aggression in Ukraine and immediately after the indictment against Putin in The Hague, has a powerful ally in the East. The word "ally" should, however, be understood conditionally
After the high-level meeting of the American and Chinese delegations in Rome, the message from Beijing is that Washington has no right to condition or threaten China with anything, nor to demand a commitment not to supply arms to Russia, or to cut economic ties with it. cooperation. China does not want to improve its relations with the US at the expense of relations with Russia
