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00:00Now the Russian president Vladimir Putin has said in the last hour or so that Russia's partnership with China shows how
00:06Relations should work that as he's arrived in Beijing for talks with his counterpart Xi Jinping that the Kremlin hopes will deepen its strategic
00:14partnership between the two most powerful
00:17geopolitical rivals of the United States
00:19Of course China and Russia declaring a no-limits partnership in February
00:242022 when Putin visited Beijing just days before he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine
00:31Well now he's picked China for his first foreign trip since being sworn in for a new six-year term
00:37Well, we're gonna cross then to Beijing talk to our correspondent. Yenna Lee. Yenna
00:41He's been there for most of the day now already speeches made by the two men. What's been happening then?
00:46It's been a really packed day for President Putin and his delegation who landed here in Beijing even before the Sun came up
00:56But this morning there was a welcome ceremony with the Chinese military band playing a Soviet Red Army
01:02classic to welcome
01:03Vladimir Putin to the Great Hall of the People the Russian president and his Chinese counterpart then had two meetings there with top officials
01:11The talks ran slightly over time after which they gave their declarations to the media president
01:16praised I quote
01:1775 years of persistent everlasting friendship and an all-round cooperation between the two countries a friendship that's hurtling towards I quote again
01:26forwards despite the wind and the rain a president Putin meanwhile said that their countries have similar approaches to many global and
01:35regional problems this evening
01:37The two are set to spend more time together drinking tea and having an informal dinner and on Friday
01:42President Putin travels northbound to Harbin City, which is in Heilongjiang province an area that borders of Russia
01:48So if Thursday's events have been highly political
01:51Fridays will really attempt to highlight the symbolic nature between the two countries
01:55Historic people-to-people ties with the visits to a university and a trade Expo
02:01You know, let's not forget. She was here in Paris wasn't he with Emmanuel Macron only a week ago
02:06I mean, how does she straddle if you like the two camps?
02:12Well, the war in Ukraine certainly has been a bit of a headache for President Xi Jinping on the one hand President Macron and the
02:18EU and the US really want President Xi to be harsher with Moscow in order to end the bloodshed in
02:24Ukraine on the other hand President Putin wants Xi to help bolster his war machine and trade with Russia
02:31Beijing surely benefits from Moscow creating this chaos with with Washington and with Brussels very busy
02:39Occupied dealing with the fallout for now President Xi and China has gotten away with claiming Beijing's
02:46Neutrality whilst not condemning the war
02:49In fact, they're not even calling this a war and as long as China hasn't sold a lethal weapons to Russia
02:55The West has so far let it slide partly because of the business opportunities to be had here
03:01But for how long that really is the question the US is now threatening to slap fresh
03:06Sanctions if the issue of dual use components
03:09so goods that can be used both for civilian and military use if this issue isn't taken seriously and this would hit China where it
03:14Hurts as it goes through this
03:16Economic slump like the US other countries and that support Ukraine could very well be trying to push towards
03:23Redefining those red lines with Beijing and say look lethal weapons aren't the only things that matter now with all these
03:31Diplomatic comings and goings Beijing could be trying to really define and determine just how much they can help Moscow without
03:38hurting themselves
03:40Yeah, no, thanks very much generally a correspondent there following that visit for us from Beijing. Thanks