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  2. Chinese defense minister to visit Russia, Belarus in show of support

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  4. US-sanctioned Chinese defense minister meets Putin in Moscow, hails

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  5. China Sends Defense Minister to Russia for First Time Since War

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  1. US-sanctioned Chinese defense minister meets Putin in Moscow ...

    Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu shake hands during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on April 16, 2023.

  2. Chinese minister's tour underscores closer ties with Russia

    China's defense minister has toured the top Russian military academy on a visit to the Russian capital that underscores the increasingly close ties between Moscow and Beijing amid the fighting in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Gen. Li Shangfu in the Kremlin on Sunday, noting that his trip follows a "very productive" three-day state visit to Moscow by Chinese leader Xi ...

  3. Putin and Chinese defense minister hail military cooperation in Moscow

    April 17, 2023, 7:12 AM PDT / Source: Reuters. By Reuters. Russian President Vladimir Putin met Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu in Moscow on Sunday and both men hailed military cooperation ...

  4. Putin, Chinese defense minister hail military cooperation

    Item 1 of 2 Russian President Vladimir Putin, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu attend a meeting in Moscow, Russia, April 16, 2023.

  5. As the war in Ukraine continues, China's defense minister visits Russia

    China's defense minister is in Moscow for meetings with top Russian officials. His visit is timed with an annual Russian security conference and weapons fair and comes amid concerns over China's ...

  6. China's defence minister visits Russia and Belarus in show of support

    Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu is visiting Russia and Belarus in a show of support as the West attempts to isolate the two allies over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.. Li departed on Monday ...

  7. China's defense minister to visit Russia and Belarus this week

    China's Defense Minister Li Shangfu will visit Russia and Belarus from Monday until Saturday, according to the Chinese Ministry of Defense. Li will attend the Moscow Conference on International ...

  8. Putin meets China's defence minister, hails military ties

    16 Apr 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin has met Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu in Moscow, with both men hailing the military cooperation between their two countries. The meeting on ...

  9. China defence minister to visit Russia, Belarus Aug 14-19

    BEIJING, Aug 14 (Reuters) - China's defence minister Li Shangfu will visit Russia and Belarus from Aug. 14-19, the ministry said in a statement on Monday. While in Russia, Li will attend an ...

  10. Putin meets with China's defense minister in Moscow

    Putin and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu met with Gen. Li Shangfu less than a month after Chinese leader Xi Jinping held a three-day state visit to Moscow. China has refused to criticize ...

  11. Russia's Shoigu meets top Chinese military official for second time in

    Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu held talks in Moscow on Wednesday with a senior Chinese military official and said they would discuss steps to deepen cooperation, Interfax news agency reported.

  12. China's top diplomat visits Moscow ahead of anniversary of Russia's

    Hong Kong CNN —. China's top diplomat Wang Yi arrived in Moscow on Tuesday, in the first visit to Russia by a Chinese official in that role since the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine ...

  13. China defence minister visits Russia, Belarus: West is irked

    Published Aug. 14, 2023 3:46 a.m. PDT. Share. BEIJING -. Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu is visiting Russia and Belarus in a show of support for those nations which the West has sought to ...

  14. China Sends Defense Minister to Russia for First Time Since War

    2:19. This article is for subscribers only. China is set to send its defense minister to Russia for the first time since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine more than a year ...

  15. China and Russia are ramping up joint military drills. What's ...

    Russian Defense Ministry/AP. ... President Vladimir Putin for a state visit to Beijing on May 16. ... together by a mutual defense pact and is viewed by both China and Russia as a key military ...

  16. Japan scrambles fighter jets that shoot flares to warn Russian spy

    In July, two Russian Tu-95s and two Chinese H-6s entered the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, NORAD said. The bombers were intercepted by U.S. F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, along with ...

  17. China's defense minister promises to boost cooperation with ...

    World Aug 17, 2023 5:46 PM EDT. TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu on Thursday visited Belarus and said his country would increase military cooperation with Russia's ...

  18. China's Xi Jinping to visit Russia next month for the BRICS summit

    MOSCOW (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping will visit Russia next month for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi confirmed Thursday, a move that comes as Moscow and Beijing seek to counter the West's global influence.. Xi's visit to Russia will be his second since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.

  19. China's defense minister warns against 'playing with fire ...

    China's defense minister Li Shangfu on Tuesday warned against "playing with fire" when it comes to Taiwan in a veiled jab at the United States as he addressed a security conference in Russia.

  20. China-Russia Cooperation Deepens

    The Chinese-Russian coast guard exercise "Pacific Patrol-2024" was held in the Peter the Great Gulf during a visit to the city of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East by two Chinese maritime law ...

  21. New China defence minister holds video talks with Russia's Shoigu

    BEIJING, Jan 31 (Reuters) - China's new defence minister Dong Jun held a video call with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday, according to a defence ministry statement, in his first ...

  22. Russian Military Plane Breaches Japan's Airspace

    According to Japan's defense ministry, the flights on Monday represented the 44th known incursion by a Russian plane — or an aircraft suspected to be Russian — since 1967, but it was the ...

  23. Ukraine-Russia war: Zelenskyy says 'victory plan' is ready as Russia

    Russia is likely to have suffered more than 610,000 casualties since the war in Ukraine began - both killed and wounded - the UK's Ministry of Defence has said.

  24. India should step up, support sovereignty, territorial integrity: US

    India should step up and support the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity, US NSA Jake Sullivan said on Saturday, referring to the Russia-Ukraine war ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's bilateral meeting with President Joe Biden. The war and Modi's recent visit to Ukraine is ...

  25. In Beijing, Blinken confronts China over 'powering' Russia's war

    Underscoring the closeness of the Beijing-Moscow relationship, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu met his Chinese counterpart Dong Jun on Friday and said the two countries were working to ...

  26. China testing resolve, Biden tells Quad allies

    CLAYMONT, Del. -- President Joe Biden told Indo-Pacific allies on Saturday that he believes China's increasing military assertiveness is an effort to test the region at a turbulent moment for Beijing.

  27. US and Chinese defense chiefs hold first in-person talks since 2022

    The meeting, between US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and China's Minister of National Defense Adm. Dong Jun, is the first face-to-face talks between the two defense chiefs and Austin's first ...