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<\/p>\nRussian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he was grateful to Chinese President Xi Jinping, his “dear friend”, for the warm welcome he has received during his trip to China.<\/p>\n
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“Dear friend, both I and the entire Russian delegation are pleased to meet once again with our Chinese friends and colleagues,” Putin told Xi at a meeting, according to a video published on the Kremlin’s official Telegram messaging app.<\/p>\n
“Our close communication reflects the strategic nature of Russia-China relations, which are at an unprecedentedly high level.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he was grateful to Chinese President Xi Jinping, his “dear friend”,…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,23,24,25,26,27],"tags":[46,65,73,48,49,58],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-eswatini-daily-news","category-finance","category-future","category-national","category-swaziland","category-taiwan","tag-africa","tag-analysis","tag-eswatini","tag-feature","tag-human-interest","tag-national","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"\n