It is the meeting that focuses all the eyes of the world. Putin received Xi Jinping in Moscow during his first visit to Russia since he War has started.

As soon as he landed, Xi stressed that China and Russia are good neighbours and trusted partners. Along the same lines, Putin highlighted this Monday in the Chinese press that Xi is a good old friend.

A two-day visit with which both countries intend to formalize a new chapter in their friendship and address their positions in the ukrainian war. But as Julio Ceballos, a business consultant in China and author of the book ‘Observar el arroz crecer’, has pointed out in ‘Al Rojo Vivo’, this relationship with Russia “is putting China in a very uncomfortable position in which he has to choose between Russia and the West” that it is not about an alliance, but about “an alignment of circumstantial interest”.

Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde, co-director of ‘IECAH’, pointed out that China “is going to support Russia so that it can, on the one hand, serve as an alternative to create problems for the United States but he is not going to play it for Russia”.

What China has wanted to make clear is its position on the possibility that they could militarily support the Kremlin. His foreign spokeswoman has assured – with a direct attack on the United States – that it is not the Chinese side, but the American side that is supplying weapons on the Ukrainian battlefield.

From the West they hope that this trip will promote the peace negotiations. The Spanish foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, asks that a clear message come out of this meeting that Vladimir Putin must abandon his illegal and unilateral war.

Something that would be the background of this trip, because according to some US media, after this visit Xi could meet for video conference with Zelensky.