Overview
- Putin will meet Xi in Beijing on Tuesday and Wednesday, leading a 39-member team of senior officials and energy executives.
- The Kremlin says the leaders plan to sign about 40 agreements, including a joint declaration to deepen their strategic partnership.
- Energy talks will center on the proposed Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, a 2,900-kilometer route through Mongolia designed to deliver about 50 billion cubic meters of gas to China each year.
- Moscow seeks to expand oil and gas sales to China as Europe moves to cut Russian LNG by 2027, a shift aimed at supporting Russia’s economy and replacing lost Western buyers.
- Beyond trade, the leaders are expected to coordinate positions on global crises, while Beijing maintains a public stance of neutrality on the Ukraine war and denies supplying arms to Russia.