{"id":27214,"date":"2022-09-15T10:52:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T10:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27214"},"modified":"2022-09-15T10:54:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T10:54:41","slug":"xi-putin-hold-summit-in-uzbekistan-as-ukraine-war-dominates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27214","title":{"rendered":"Xi, Putin hold summit in Uzbekistan as Ukraine war dominates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AP News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin and leaders from India and Central Asia gathered Thursday in Uzbekistan for a summit of a security group formed by Beijing and Moscow as a counterweight to U.S. influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting Friday of the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization is overshadowed by Putin\u2019s attack on Ukraine and strains in China\u2019s relations with Washington, Europe, Japan and India due to disputes over technology, security and territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event in the ancient sultanate of Samarkand is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-putin-health-japan-china-72f848530e0b16d2cbd80d38e74fda03\">Xi\u2019s first foreign trip<\/a> since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic 2 1\/2 years ago, underscoring Beijing\u2019s desire to assert itself as a regional power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin and Xi were due to meet one-on-one and discuss Ukraine, according to the Russian president\u2019s foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xi\u2019s government, which said it had a \u201cno limits\u201d friendship with Moscow before the invasion, has refused to criticize the attack. Beijing and India are buying more Russian oil and gas, which helps Moscow offset the impact of Western sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP News: Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin and leaders from India and Central Asia gathered Thursday in Uzbekistan for a summit of a security group formed by Beijing and Moscow as a counterweight to U.S. influence. The meeting Friday of the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization is overshadowed by Putin\u2019s attack on Ukraine and strains in China\u2019s relations with Washington, Europe, Japan and India due to disputes over technology, security and territory. The event in the ancient sultanate of Samarkand is part of Xi\u2019s first foreign trip since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic 2 1\/2 years ago, underscoring Beijing\u2019s&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27216,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27214\/revisions\/27216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}