Is Beijing the World’s ‘Living Room’? China Is Enjoying the Global Stage, but There Are Limits to Its Influence
Foreign leaders secured a few trade deals in Beijing, but analysts said the visits left China’s core foreign policy positions unchanged.
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Is Beijing the world’s ‘living room’? China is enjoying the global stage, but there are limits to its influence
In recent weeks, the back-to-back state visits to Beijing by Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump have put China in the global spotlight. For some international analysts, the summits showcased China as a “stabilising force capable of hosting two major rivals within days”, a “broker between the big powers” and a “pillar of global stability”. To others, the visits highlighted how China is becoming an “indispensable global…
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited China last week, just days after US President Donald Trump. The relationship between China and Russia is inevitably close, but as the latest meeting showed, it is not an endless blue sky.
In mid-May, Donald Trump, along with a huge team, went to China for a meeting with Xi Jinping, followed by Vladimir Putin, just four days later. Propaganda even tried to prove that the arrival of the Russian President was no less important than the United States — and showed the "chemodan of the signed documents" that the Russian delegation had taken out of China. But the main reason why Putin had come was the mega-project "Sil Siberia — 2." Why…
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