Putin in China Visit Will Hold Intensive Schedule of Meetings
Aug. 27—Russian President Vladimir Putin will follow a very intense schedule in his four-day trip to China over Aug. 31 to Sept. 3. Putin aide Yury Ushakov presented the schedule to reporters on Aug. 19. Interfax quoted Ushakov, “It has been agreed that the leaders will meet on Chinese soil during the SCO [Shanghai Cooperation Organization] summit in Tianjin on August 31-September 1.” He added that “large-scale bilateral talks will be held on September 2” between Putin and Xi Jinping. Ushakov added, “Then, they will also jointly attend the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the victory over militarist Japan and the end of World War II in Beijing on September 3.”
President Putin will also hold talks along the sidelines of the SCO summit; it was announced August 25, that he will meet with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the summit.
Earlier, over May 7-10, Xi Jinping visited Russia, his 11th trip there, where he met for four hours with Russian President Putin in Moscow on May 8. They jointly released a bilateral statement on May 9, during the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, which stated, “China and Russia have set a model for the world on building new-type international relations as well as on developing cooperation between major countries and between the countries as each other’s biggest neighbor.” This flowed from a fundamental statement that the two countries’ leaders had published February 4, 2022, setting out long-term, integrated collaborative policy between the two nations, entitled, “Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development,” which covered every area of their collaboration.
The May 9, 2025 Xi-Putin document emphasized that China and Russia “will comprehensively deepen their practical cooperation in fields ranging from economic and trade, customs, agriculture, transportation, finance, industry, environmental protection, aerospace and satellite navigation, nuclear energy, urban construction to health care and information and communication technology, ensuring a higher-quality and upgraded bilateral cooperation by 2030.”