(Reuters) – Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Beijing for two days of talks with Chinese leaders, Russian news agencies reported late on Tuesday.
The visit by Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s powerful Security Council, is part of a deepening relationship between Moscow and Beijing. Both sides have pledged to intensify a “no limits” partnership proclaimed in February 2022 just ahead of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov visited Beijing in October, with both sides saying his meetings focused on “substantive” defense and military talks to bolster ties.
Medvedev, a former Russian president, has taken on the role of one of Moscow’s most vociferous hawks in defense of Moscow’s Ukraine operation.
Last month, he warned the United States to take seriously Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s lowering of Moscow’s threshold in its military doctrine in view of Ukraine’s deployment of Western missiles to strike targets within Russian territory.
The West was wrong, he said, to believe that Russia would “never cross a certain line”.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Matthew Lewis)
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