Putin's Visit to China — News Roundup

Putin Arrives in Beijing: Energy Deal, Joint Declaration, and the Diplomatic Sequence That Puts China in the Middle

Putin's 25th trip to China — arriving days after Trump's own Beijing summit — opens with an agenda dominated by a pending oil-and-gas deal, a joint declaration on a "multipolar world," and Moscow's need for reassurance that China hasn't drifted toward Washington. A full roundup of the summit's opening, energy talks, and geopolitical stakes.