The general-secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, is slated to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, just days after the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted the Russian strongman for war crimes.
Xi’s visit is the latest sign of Beijing’s emboldened diplomatic ambitions, and it comes amid sharpening East-West tensions over the war in Ukraine, now in its 13th month. Xi recently scored a diplomatic victory, according to an intelligence official, by bypassing the U.S. and brokering a rapprochement between Iran’s regime and Saudi Arabia.
Rebekah Koffler, a former analyst at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, told Fox News Digital that Xi’s meeting with Putin is “highly significant” because “Xi is highly incentivized to drag out Putin’s war on Ukraine because China only benefits from it as both of its top strategic adversaries are depleting their combat arsenals in Ukraine in a proxy war.”
Koffler added, “This is why Xi will…
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