Putin won’t go to US, but China

Last Updated: Friday, May 11, 2012, 23:58

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Tags: Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, China

Zeenews Bureau

Moscow: Vladimir Putin, who was recently sworn-in as Russian President, will make China his first foreign destination for the third presidential term, a report said on Friday.

Notably, Putin is not attending the Group of Eight (G8) summit to be hosted by US President Barack Obama.

Putin will reportedly visit China from June 05-07 and meet Chinese President Hu Jintao. The Russian President will also attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.

On Wednesday, Putin told US President Barack Obama by phone that he would not be able to attend the G8 summit on May 18-19 due to busy domestic schedule.

Instead, new Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who has just handed over presidential powers to Putin, will attend the summit.

The US visit would have included Putin’s ice-breaking talks with Obama.

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First Published: Friday, May 11, 2012, 23:53

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India beware. Putin visits China, also shares a very good relationship with Chinese outgoing President, `Hu Jintao`. It will seal a more than 4 billion dollar deal for SU-35s. Even though India stands as the largest importer of Russian armaments, Putin back bites India by selling high end Technology to China, which than reengineers it to make cheaper copies Russia only tends to oppose such things and since China does not respond to such things Russia is silently made to do only one thing without choice and that is SUFFER and PAY. India Russia relationship shall take a new alltime low if Putin keeps up with his high handedness attitude. China will bully Russia, like any other nation cause it is in its DNA to behave in that fashion, it will only wait to out grow Russia in defence technology. God bless Indians and Russians cause both will need that when China treats them like that, all cause current politicians are not able to manage China.