{"id":8979,"date":"2026-05-20T09:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:18:05","slug":"are-putin-and-xi-best-friends-bbc-breaks-down-their-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=8979&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Are Putin and Xi Best Friends? BBC Breaks Down Their Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leader <b>Xi Jinping<\/b> and Russian president <b>Vladimir Putin<\/b> are meeting in Beijing for bilateral talks. The BBC&#8217;s China correspondent Laura Bicker, and Russia editor Steve Rosenberg, break down their relationship and answer this key question &#8211; <b>are they best friends, or is it just geopolitics?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>#PutinXiMeeting #ChinaRussiaRelations #Geopolitics #BilateralTalks #BeijingSummit #InternationalRelations #WorldLeaders #Diplomacy #XiJinping #VladimirPutin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian president Vladimir Putin are meeting in Beijing for bilateral talks. The BBC&#8217;s China correspondent Laura Bicker, and Russia editor Steve Rosenberg, break down their relationship and answer this key question &#8211; are they best friends, or is it just geopolitics? #PutinXiMeeting #ChinaRussiaRelations #Geopolitics #BilateralTalks #BeijingSummit #InternationalRelations #WorldLeaders #Diplomacy #XiJinping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}