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

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”. The two countries also announced that they had signed a large package of deals solidifying bilateral cooperation in the future. The meeting came just days after United States President Donald Trump completed his own visit to China for a two-day summit with Xi. …