Jeremy Page

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The Intelligence from The Economist · The Peking order: Xi meets Putin after Trump · 21 May 2026 podcast

They had very similar welcomes.

They were both met by senior officials at the airport.

They had welcoming ceremonies on Tiananmen Square with military honor guards, a small military parade, waving children, a 21-gun salute.

And then they both had formal talks in the Great Hall of the Peace.

People next to Tiananmen Square.

But for Putin, there was no equivalent of the private tours that Trump got of the Temple of Heaven and the Chinese leadership compound, uh Zhongnanhai, where Trump was shown one of the gardens there, which is considered a rare privilege.

And there were none of the personal touches between Xi Jinping and Putin that we've seen in their previous meetings.

I think that's partly because China wanted to avoid upsetting Trump, who puts a lot of emphasis on the pageantry of these meetings, and probably would have been disappointed if it'd seen Putin getting exactly the same thing a few days later.

And China and Russia were probably also trying to show that their relationship is a bit more mature and less superficial, more based on substance.

So there wasn't a joint statement from the Trump

visit, but there was an extremely lengthy one that came out of the Putin visit, which detailed cooperation in an extraordinary range of areas, everything from artificial intelligence and space to border infrastructure and even the protection of tigers and leopards.

Exactly.

Xi Jinping, I think, is trying to show that he can improve relations with America without sacrificing his so-called no limits partnership with Russia.

And that's important to him partly because he's aware that some Trump advisors advocate rebuilding ties with the Kremlin to try to isolate and weaken China in what they call a

reverse Nixon strategy, you know, the reverse of what the US did in isolating the Soviet Union by building closer ties with China from the early nineteen seventies onwards.

At the same time, he wants to demonstrate that China is now the central power, the pivotal power in the strategic triangle of relations between Beijing, Moscow, and Washington, which really shaped those geopolitics in the Cold War.

He demonstrated in these two summits that he now has better relations with Putin and with Trump than they have with each other.

So that puts him in a very strong position.

And more broadly, Xi Jinping has always aspired to put China at the center of global affairs.

So having the American and Russian leaders coming to Beijing in quick succession, both seeking business deals and help with their foreign wars.

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