Xi, Putin detail 'deepening' relations between Beijing and Moscow during conference in China
Russia-China trade climbed to $200 billion in the last year, Putin said. HONG KONG -- While one war continues to rage in Ukraine and another is threatening to boil over in the Middle East, Chinese President Xi Jinping held court in Beijing for visiting dignitaries, presenting his vision of "an open, inclusive and interconnected world" through his signature global infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative, while taking veiled swipes at the United States and its Western allies. In Xi's keynote speech marking the 10th anniversary of his Pet foreign policy project, he criticized those who view "others' development as a threat" and "economic interdependence as a risk," saying protectionist actions like those the U.S. has taken against China "will not make one's own life better or speed up one's development." "We stand against are unilateral sanctions, economic coercion and decoupling," Xi told the cavernous mee...