{"id":66797,"date":"2022-06-16T12:12:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/war-china-promises-to-support-russia"},"modified":"2022-06-16T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:19:27","slug":"war-china-promises-to-support-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/war-china-promises-to-support-russia","title":{"rendered":"War: China promises to support Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>China has reiterated its support for Russia on \u201csovereignty and security\u201d matters.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping made the promise in a call with Russian leader, Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>This is upholding China\u2019s backing for the countries\u2019 partnership despite the global backlash against Putin over the ongoing war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his 69th birthday, Xi also pledged to deepen strategic coordination between the two countries, according to China\u2019s Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>A separate readout from the Kremlin said the two leaders stressed their countries\u2019 relations \u201cwere at an all-time high\u201d and reaffirmed their commitment to \u201cconsistently deepen the comprehensive partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The call is thought to be the second time Xi and Putin have spoken since Russia invaded Ukraine. They also spoke just days after Russia invaded Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. China has reiterated its support for Russia on \u201csovereignty and security\u201d matters. Chinese President Xi Jinping made the promise in a call with Russian leader, Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, according to CNN. This is upholding China\u2019s backing for the countries\u2019 partnership despite the global backlash against Putin over the ongoing war in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":66796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,519,254,5208,5739],"class_list":["post-66797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-china","tag-nigeria","tag-russia","tag-xi-jinping"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>War: China promises to support Russia - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"China has reiterated its support for Russia on \u201csovereignty and security\u201d matters. 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