Xi and Putin Strengthen Strategic Cooperation Amidst Global Changes.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin bid each other farewell after a two-day meeting in Moscow, with Xi stating that they were driving geopolitical changes around the world. The two leaders called for "responsible dialogue" to resolve the Ukraine crisis and acknowledged that their ties had entered a "new era" of cooperation. Putin said that a Chinese proposal to end the conflict could be used as the basis of a peace settlement, but the West and Kyiv were not yet ready.