PM Mishustin To Meet Chinese President & Premier On 23-24 May Trip

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is set to visit China from 23-24 May for talks with his counterpart Premier Li Qiang as well as President Xi Jinping. The visit comes just after the conclusion of the G7 summit in Japan, and will mark the seniormost visit of a Russian gov't official to China since President Vladimir Putin attended the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic games shortly before he launched his invasion of Ukraine.

• Mishustin, alongside Deputy PM Alexander Novak (the minister responsible for energy and Russia's hydrocarbon sector), will lead a business delegation to the Russia-China Business Forum taking place in Shanghai.
• Bloomberg reports: “The forum is likely to reinforce the narrative about the blossoming economic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing, despite economic sanctions imposed on Russia,” said Vita Spivak, non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “In the economic realm, similar to geopolitics, Russia is actively strengthening its dependency on China and is becoming Beijing’s junior partner.”