PUTIN IN BEIJING RENEWS MEETING FROM 26 YEARS AGO: Emotional moment with a man he met as a child
Photo: Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
TL;DR
- Vladimir Putin met Peng Pai, an engineer he first met as a child in 2000, during his visit to Beijing.
- Peng Pai studied in Moscow from 2007 to 2013 and considered his education in Russia the most important thing he gained.
- Putin and Xi Jinping adopted a joint Declaration on the development of a multipolar world and new international relations.
- The declaration condemns rising neocolonial tendencies, unilateralism, hegemony, and bloc confrontation.
- It emphasizes that all countries have a right to security and that global hegemony is unacceptable.