Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday, with the two leaders hailing what Putin called an unprecedented level of relations.Putin received a red-carpet welcome at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, where Xi described the China-Russian relationship as a stabilizing force in a turbulent world and warned against what he called a return to the “law of the jungle” in international affairs. Putin went so far as to say Russia-China relations were at an “unprecedentedly high level.”The meeting comes less than a week after President Donald Trump concluded his own visit to Beijing, placing Xi at the center of competing relationships with two global powers.
During the visit, Xi and Putin oversaw the signing of dozens of agreements during which the Chinese president said the countries should “all unilateral bullying and actions that reverse history.”
The pair signed over 40 cooperation agreements focused on trade, technology, and media exchanges. One of the agreements extends a friendship treaty first signed in 2001.
Energy came into focus, with Russia continuing to expand oil exports to China as Moscow relies heavily on Beijing amid Western sanctions tied to the war in Ukraine. China has become Russia’s largest trading partner, with bilateral trading reaching $228 billion in 2025, according to state media reported by the Associated Press.
