While diplomats may say that official visits have been planned for a long time, sometimes they are the right time to send a “signal”.
Less than a week after the serious verbal pass between Joe Biden and Vladimir Poutine - called
"killer"
by the American president - and while the EU is taking sanctions against Beijing (
see opposite
), Sergey Lavrov arrived in Guilin on Monday, a remarkable site in southern China, to meet with his counterpart Wang Yi.
The message delivered by this meeting is most timely, seen from Moscow: if Western interlocutors are lacking, Russia can count on its Chinese strategic partner to defend their common interests
.
The statements, Sunday, of the Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Andrei Kelin, affirming that the relations between London and Moscow were
“practically dead”
reinforced this gloomy state of affairs.
“In the current international situation, it is very important to strengthen
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