Key takeaways:
- Wang Yi, Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s top foreign policy adviser, is set to arrive in Moscow as part of his eight-day Europe tour.
- The US notified Russia of President Biden’s secret visit to Ukraine hours before his departure in an attempt to avoid sparking conflict.
- The visit of Wang Yi to Moscow is seen as an attempt by China to balance its diplomatic relations with both the US and Russia.
This week, Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s top foreign policy adviser Wang Yi is set to arrive in Moscow as part of his eight-day Europe tour. This trip comes at a time of strained relations between the US and China, and coincides with US President Joe Biden’s visit to Ukraine.
The US notified Russia of President Biden’s secret visit to Ukraine hours before his departure in an attempt to avoid sparking conflict. The White House said the nature of the trip to an active warzone was unprecedented, given the lack of a U.S. military presence in Ukraine and the small U.S. diplomatic footprint in the capital.
The timing of the two trips – taking place just days before the one-year anniversary of the brutal war on Friday – underscores the sharpening of geopolitical fault lines between the world’s two superpowers. President Biden and a small group of top U.S. officials were on the ground in Kyiv for about six hours Monday to mark the upcoming one-year mark of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
The visit of Wang Yi to Moscow is seen as an attempt by China to balance its diplomatic relations with both the US and Russia. It is unclear how the US-China relations will develop in the future, but it is clear that the geopolitical landscape is becoming increasingly complex.
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