The head of Chinese diplomacy Wang Yi is due to meet this Tuesday in Beijing with the former Russian Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, now secretary of the Russian Security Council.
They will have “strategic consultations on security,” said Lin Jian, a spokesperson for Chinese diplomacy. They will thus discuss “major issues concerning the strategic security interests of the two countries and the strengthening of mutual trust”.
China, whose ties with Russia are viewed with suspicion by Westerners because it has never publicly condemned Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, claims to be discussing with all parties and playing mediator.
Pyongyang has ratified a historic defense agreement with Russia, sealing their rapprochement in the context of the war led by Moscow in Ukraine, the official North Korean agency KCNA reported on Tuesday. The agreement “was ratified in the form of a decree” signed by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on November 11, the day after the announcement in Moscow that Vladimir Putin had also signed this mutual defense treaty.
Concluded during a rare visit by the head of the Kremlin to Pyongyang in June, this treaty between these two countries, the bane of the United States, notably provides for reciprocal “immediate military aid” in the event of an attack against one. of the two countries.
Hello everyone. Like every day, the editorial staff of 20 Minutes is mobilized to give you all the information on the conflict between kyiv and Moscow.
On the ground, the start of the week was marked by air alerts triggered across almost all of Ukraine on Monday morning due to the takeoff of a large number of Russian bombers, after a series of strikes which left at least six dead. at night in the south of the country. And on the diplomatic level, the military rapprochement between Moscow and Pyongyang has accelerated in particular to counter Western sanctions.
