Putin visits Xi as leaders celebrate 'unprecedentedly' strong relations

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday, with the two leaders hailing what Putin called an unprecedented level of relations.

Putin received a red-carpet welcome at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, where Xi described the China-Russian relationship as a stabilizing force in a turbulent world and warned against what he called a return to the “law of the jungle” in international affairs. Putin went so far as to say Russia-China relations were at an “unprecedentedly high level.”