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Kaliningrad:
🇷🇺 President Putin lands in China, where he is welcomed by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

In contrast, Trump was welcomed by Chinese Vice President whose power is mostly ceremonial. The Foreign Minister is the second overall power in China.

There were also no US flags in sight in Beijing. On the other hand, the Russian flag was flown in every corner of Beijing.

Claims circulating online about the contrasting receptions given to Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Beijing are a mixture of fact, exaggeration, and misunderstanding of Chinese political protocol.

First, it is true that President Putin was welcomed upon arrival by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Reports from multiple international outlets confirm this. However, the inference that this automatically signifies a dramatically higher level of diplomatic respect than that accorded to Trump is questionable. Chinese state protocol is highly formalized, and airport receptions do not map neatly onto simple hierarchies of prestige.

It is also true that Donald Trump was received by Chinese Vice President Han Zheng during his visit. Yet the attempt to portray this as a deliberate slight ignores precedent. Previous American presidents have likewise been welcomed by Chinese vice presidents. Barack Obama, for example, was received by then–Vice President Xi Jinping in 2009, while Trump himself was greeted by Vice President Li Yuanchao during his 2017 visit to China. In other words, the reception accorded Trump falls well within established diplomatic practice.
The accompanying claim that the Chinese vice presidency is “mostly ceremonial” is only partially correct. Constitutionally, the office is indeed weaker than the top Communist Party positions. But Han Zheng is not a marginal figure. He is a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee—the apex of political authority in China—and remains a senior statesman trusted with high-level diplomatic responsibilities. Describing him as a powerless ceremonial official is therefore misleading.

More problematic is the assertion that China’s Foreign Minister is “the second most powerful person in China.” This is simply false. China’s political system is dominated by the Chinese Communist Party, not by formal state offices alone. Real power resides primarily within the Politburo Standing Committee under Xi Jinping. Wang Yi is an influential diplomat, particularly in foreign affairs, but he is nowhere near the second-ranking figure in the Chinese political hierarchy.

The flag controversy is similarly distorted. Claims that “there were no U.S. flags in Beijing” during Trump’s reception are contradicted by photographs and news footage showing both Chinese and American flags displayed during welcoming ceremonies. Children waving U.S. and Chinese flags were visible at the airport reception.

Conversely, reports that Russian flags were prominently displayed across Beijing during Putin’s visit are broadly credible. China frequently decorates major venues and routes with the visiting nation’s flags during important state visits. But statements claiming Russian flags appeared “in every corner of Beijing” are rhetorical exaggerations rather than precise factual descriptions.

We know your preference, but do not distort the facts,

Normal level. All these who receive and who no receive na to massage egos

rowland545:
Trump will not like this ..he is a big baby anything more than d welcome he got ...he won't b happy....what a bad time to b an American....they r not just what they use to b

sebi you guys said if na putin na xi jin ping go come welcome and for airport and not the Chinese vice president....bomb 💣 dey una head

Protein0:
People's Republic of China, the new bride

More like the ew brutish well experienced husband

Main BRICS piooners briefing before the call on other allies

Putin certainly knows that without China, he's finished kpata kpata. China is the one fighting Ukraine.

He came to China to undo what Trump did last week. This is interesting.

There going to be world war three. It's only being delayed. The 3rd world war will be very brutal and will certainly be Nuclear war. Let it be on record.

Russian Chinese building a close relationship
Forma rivals building a great fortune because the USA is a scam
They call us terrorists yet who is a terrorists

familiar round of speculation. Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in China only days after his US counterpart Donald Trump’s own high-profile visit to Beijing, and commentators are already speaking of a new “great triangle” between Russia, China and the United States.

The timing, however, is largely coincidental because Putin’s visit was planned long in advance. Meetings between the Russian and Chinese leaders are now routine and form part of an increasingly institutionalized partnership. Trump’s trip, by contrast, had already been postponed several times, most recently because of the war with Iran. The American president was clearly reluctant to arrive in Beijing while trapped in the role of a wartime leader unable to control events. Even so, he didn’t manage to come to town as a triumphant statesman because Iran hasn’t yielded, and Washington’s position remains uncertain.

Yet from the perspective of the broader international system, the triangular comparison is understandable. Russia, China and the United States are today the three powers with the greatest capacity to shape global affairs. Their strengths differ as America retains unmatched military and financial reach, while China possesses industrial and economic weight on a historic scale. Meanwhile, Russia continues to wield enormous geopolitical and strategic influence far beyond the size of its economy. Thus, any interaction between the three inevitably affects the wider international balance.

Still, the similarities end there and, in practice, the relationships themselves are fundamentally different in character.

The United States and China are strategic rivals, and that rivalry isn’t temporary, and Trump’s latest visit to Beijing underlined how deeply the relationship has changed. For decades, both sides benefited from a kind of economic symbiosis in which commercial interests outweighed political disagreements but that era is now over.

Polar world loading

The Era of USA is over, evn Trump knows it, he is just trying to cover it. They have lost it forever.

Heffalump:
Putin certainly knows that without China, he's finished kpata kpata. China is the one fighting Ukraine.

He came to China to undo what Trump did last week. This is interesting.

There going to be world war three. It's only being delayed. The 3rd world war will be very brutal and will certainly be Nuclear war. Let it be on record.

😂 🤣 😭 🤣 😂 🤣 😭 🤣

China wey still dey buy oil, aircrafts, alluminium, enriched uranium, submarines and heavy industrial machines, even nuclear reactors from Russia?

Wetin Russia dey buy from China? $400 Dji drones and Huawei phones?? Na wetin Russia no fit do without?? 🤣 😂 😭

Protein0:
People's Republic of China, the new bride

Very important nation in the scheme of things.

The Americans are now having a sit South of the table

DeltaBachelor:
Okay. After Trump, then Putin visits. Hmmmm. I smell a rat o !

hmm

Wetin dey sup for china these days

Japan alone is enough to handle China and the prime minister of Japan has already warned them not to invade Taiwan. Why do you think China hasn’t invaded Taiwan while US is tied down in Iran? Japan had nearly finished China in the early 1940s but America came to rescue China. So if the same Japan is now backed by America, then it’s goodbye to China.

WriterrNg:

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First tell Trump to stop his fuuulissh war in Iran, Cuba, Venezuela.

Mr Trump started wars on Iran, Cuba and Venezuela before Mr Putin started one in Ukraine?

Oh, I forgot it's all about the USA to you.

God bless Russia 🇷🇺

lordm:
You this small boy. Watch how Russia will loose that stupid war.

He's not like Trump who's running around and looking for people to beg Iran for forgiveness

The evil USA will never allow any country to rise like China again that why they will do everything possible to make sure Nigeria keep electing useless leaders.

Check out nah from a PHD holder to a Waec holder from waec holder to someone without any academic background in Nigeria .

I spoke with a chinese friend and he told me china wouldn't have invited trump. His visit is by his request. The both president posture speaks it all. China is only interested in American market and america may want china to stop selling arms to their enemies which is impossible for china.
China is only out to sell the products they have unlike america that won't sell arms to you so you won't challange them.
China believes that a better world means a better business for them.

Funny post.

Two communist neighbors and friends are having a tea party, nothing new.

But like I said before, Trump’s visit to China wasn’t courteous. China has been warned and Putin has been summoned.

Let’s leave it at that.

The next wave of elections in the EU will turn pro-west. Spanish PMs party lost parliamentary seats. Starmer is on the way out.

America will pulverise Iran if they want to

frankson1:
He's not like Trump who's running around and looking for people to beg Iran for forgiveness

Mrtaye:
sebi you guys said if na putin na xi jin ping go come welcome and for airport and not the Chinese vice president....bomb 💣 dey una head

shit day ur head

lordm:
Putin stop the stupid war in Ukraine

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Stop whatever you just started smoking.

"NWON DARE WAYO : WAYO WAYO ".
STUBBORN CONVICTION.
THE LORD WATCHES OVER THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT THE WAYS OF THE WICKED SHALL PERISH.

WriterrNg:

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Nobody talk am.

Xi Xinping no dey ever come airport welcome anybody.

Putin no dey come airport welcome anybody.

Only Trump don come airport welcome Putin. He no dey do am for other world leaders.

una don dey change mouth

rowland545:
shit day ur head

But bomb 💣 dey your head

You lied with a straight face! He Zheng, the Vice Presiden of China is head and above Wang Yi, the Foreign Affairs Minister. Stop peddling lies.

Nastrademus:
Is it all about Putin's visit to China or Trump's comparison to Putin's visit

Leave that confused kid

Everybody now competing for Chinese attention. What's up?