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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits China to discuss Middle East war
The talks covered Ukraine, the Middle East and energy security as Beijing and Moscow prepared a Putin-Xi meeting, officials said.
- On Wednesday, China's President Xi Jinping met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Beijing to discuss the Middle East war and deepen bilateral cooperation amid regional tensions.
- High energy prices and the Strait of Hormuz blockade prompted the visit, as Lavrov offered that Russia could "compensate" for China's energy shortages amid the ongoing US-Iran conflict.
- Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi "conducted in-depth exchanges on the US-Iran conflict, the Asia-Pacific situation, the Ukraine crisis" and other regional issues of common concern.
- Xi urged China and Russia to "give full play to the advantages of geographic proximity and complementarity" to raise development resilience, as Beijing hosted multiple global leaders this week.
- While Lavrov told Xi that bilateral relations "play a stabilising role in world affairs," political scientist Ian Chong noted that "Moscow and Beijing's interests may diverge somewhat on the war in Iran.
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