{"id":5375,"date":"2023-05-19T21:19:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2023-05-19T21:19:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:19:18","slug":"russian-pm-to-visit-china-next-week-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/news\/russian-pm-to-visit-china-next-week-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian PM to visit China next week: Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beijing, May 19: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will visit China from May 23 to 24, Beijing&#8217;s foreign ministry and the Kremlin said on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At the invitation of Premier Li Qiang of the State Council, Russian Federation Prime Minister Mishustin will pay an official visit to China from May 23 to 24,&#8221; foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confirming the visit, the Kremlin said: &#8220;Russian-Chinese cooperation in trade and economic spheres will be discussed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Particular attention will be given to the industry, energy, transport infrastructure and agriculture,&#8221; it added, saying several bilateral agreements were expected to be signed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mishustin will also visit Shanghai during his visit, where he will speak at a Russian-Chinese business forum, the Kremlin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia and China have close relations, with President Xi Jinping visiting Moscow in March and saying ties were &#8220;entering a new era&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while China says it is a neutral party in the Ukraine war, it has been criticised for refusing to condemn Moscow for the invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese envoy Li Hui visited Kyiv this week, where he told Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and other officials that &#8220;there is no panacea to resolve the crisis&#8221;.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, May 19: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will visit China from May 23 to 24, Beijing&#8217;s foreign ministry and the Kremlin said on Friday. &#8220;At the invitation of Premier Li Qiang of the State Council, Russian Federation Prime Minister Mishustin will pay an official visit to China from May 23 to 24,&#8221; foreign ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81,2,2622,2621],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-china","category-news","category-russia-asia","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}