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‘Multipolar world’: What Xi and Putin announced after Beijing summit

Al Jazeera · · 877 words · By Sarah Shamim
Economic De-dollarization Multipolarity vs. Unipolarity Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership
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16 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have signed a joint declaration following their meeting in Beijing, focusing on building a “multipolar world and a new type of international relations”.”
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The claim is supported by Al Jazeera and Wikipedia, which both confirm the meeting between Putin and Xi in China and the focus on a 'multipolar world' and bilateral cooperation.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russian president Vladimir Putin paid an official visit to China in May 2024. The visit was his first foreign visit after assuming office for the fifth term. The visit underscored the deepening partne…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_visit_by_Vladimir_Putin_t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On May 7–10, 2025, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chinese president, visited Russia. He traveled to Moscow to conduct a state visit to Russia and participate in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_state_visit_by_Xi_Jinping…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — At the invitation of President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, President of the United Republic of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete, President of the Republic of South Africa Jacob Zuma and President…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_visits_by_Xi_Jinping_to_…
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“The two countries also announced that they had signed a large package of deals solidifying bilateral cooperation in the future.”
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Both Al Jazeera and a news report on the Putin-Xi meeting confirm that the leaders agreed on bilateral cooperation and signed agreements during the visit.
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web search NEUTRAL — China and Russia share one of the world's most important foreign relationships.[a] Both nations share interest in energy cooperation, military ties, and geopolitical alignment in challenging the colle…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Russia_relations
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web search NEUTRAL — The Russian and Chinese leaders agreed on bilateral cooperation during Putin's visit to China.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/20/multipolar-world-wh…
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web search NEUTRAL — Xi, in his remarks, said China and Russia should assist each other’s “development revitalisation” and strengthen bilateral coordination amid global challenges. The two leaders first held a smaller mee…
https://www.wionews.com/world/putin-xi-jinping-meeting-russi…
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“The meeting came just days after United States President Donald Trump completed his own visit to China for a two-day summit with Xi.”
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Wikipedia confirms that Donald Trump made a state visit to China from November 8-10, 2017, and another from May 13-15, 2026. The claim's timing relative to Putin's visit is consistent with the reported sequence of diplomatic events in the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 8 to 10 November 2017, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, made a state visit to China with his wife, the first lady of the United States, Melania Trump. This was Trump's first stat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_state_visit_by_Donald_Tru…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 13 to 15 May 2026, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, made a state visit to China. This visit was Trump's second state visit to China, and the first to occur during his second pres…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_state_visit_by_Donald_Tru…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of international trips made by Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and the president of China. Xi Jinping has made 56 international trips to 71 countries si…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_trips_ma…
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“Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov described this declaration as a 47-page policy document.”
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While the meeting and declaration are corroborated, the specific detail that Yuri Ushakov described it as a '47-page policy document' is not explicitly confirmed in the provided evidence snippets, though the context of the meeting is present.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 20–22 March 2023, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese president, visited Russia, in his first international meeting since his re-election as president during th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_visit_by_Xi_Jinping_to_Ru…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russian president Vladimir Putin paid an official visit to China in May 2024. The visit was his first foreign visit after assuming office for the fifth term. The visit underscored the deepening partne…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_visit_by_Vladimir_Putin_t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — China and Russia share one of the world's most important foreign relationships. Both nations share interest in energy cooperation, military ties, and geopolitical alignment in challenging the collecti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Russia_relations
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“In 2022, shortly after the beginning of Russia’s war with Ukraine, Putin accused the US of stoking hostilities in Ukraine to maintain its global influence.”
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Al Jazeera explicitly states that in 2022, Putin accused the US of stoking hostilities in Ukraine to maintain global influence. This is supported by the general context of the 2022 invasion provided by Wikipedia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 Russia–United States Summit (also known as the Trump–Putin Summit in Alaska) was a summit meeting between United States president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin. It was hel…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Russia–United_States_summ…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russian president Vladimir Putin elicited multiple responses for many of his actions, in Russia and the rest of the world. According to the Russian non-governmental organization Levada Center, about …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Vladimir_Putin
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
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“this year marks the 70th anniversary of partnership between the Russian TASS news agency and the Chinese Xinhua news agency.”
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The provided Wikipedia entries for news agencies and Xinhua do not mention a 70th anniversary partnership with TASS.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — News agencies were created to provide newspapers with information about a wide variety of news events happening around the world. Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to ne…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_news_agencies
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Vietnam News Agency (VNA, Vietnamese: Thông tấn xã Việt Nam) is the official state-run news agency of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It operates more than 30 foreign bureaux worldwide and maintain…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_News_Agency
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: SHIN-HWA, lit. 'New China'), or New China News Agency, is the official state news agency of the People's Republic of China. It is a ministry-level instituti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency
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“the Kremlin statement said Beijing and Moscow had signed around 40 intergovernmental, interagency and corporate documents.”
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The provided evidence does not explicitly mention the number '40' regarding the documents signed, although it confirms that agreements were signed.
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web search NEUTRAL — Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, spanning eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen coun…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago · Russia is a land of superlatives. By far the world’s largest country, it covers nearly twice the territory of Canada, the second largest. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and …
https://www.britannica.com/place/Russia
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Reuters.com is your online source for the latest Europe news stories and current events, ensuring our readers up to date with any breaking news developments
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia/
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“last year, trade between the two countries reached almost $240bn”
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Multiple independent sources (Al Jazeera, a report on Chinese border towns, and a report citing Ushakov) confirm that trade between Russia and China reached almost or topped $240 billion.
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web search NEUTRAL — Trade between Russia and China topped $240 billion last year, rising two-thirds since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. China has also supplied many drones and parts used by Russia in the conflict. M…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/business/manzhouli-china-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The statement added that, last year, trade between the two countries reached almost $240bn, while the Chinese statement said bilateral trade grew by 20 percent in the first four months of this year.
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web search NEUTRAL — Ushakov further said Russia-China trade turnover reached nearly $240 billion in 2025 and continued to diversify. “In 2025, trade turnover reached almost $240 billion, and its structure expanded, inclu…
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/eurasia/kremlin-says-putin-xi-to-di…
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“the Chinese statement said bilateral trade grew by 20 percent in the first four months of this year.”
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Al Jazeera explicitly reports that the Chinese statement said bilateral trade grew by 20 percent in the first four months of the year.
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“Bloomberg reported that Russia now imports more than 90 percent of the technology targeted by US and European Union sanctions via China”
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No evidence was provided in the search results regarding a Bloomberg report on 90% of sanctioned technology being imported via China.
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“The Kremlin statement said that nearly all import and export transactions between Russia and China are in roubles and yuan.”
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“an understanding had been reached for the route and construction of the long-delayed joint Siberia 2 pipeline”
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“Once completed, the pipeline will transport 50 billion cubic metres of Russian gas annually to China via Mongolia”
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“In December 2022, the Group of Seven (G7), the EU and Australia placed a cap on the price of Russian oil at $60 per barrel”
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“The cap was later reduced to around $48 by the EU and the United Kingdom.”
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“Xi and Putin had agreed to expand student exchange programmes and cooperation between universities and research platforms”
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