BOFIT: Putin visits China; US sanctions also make trade between China and Russia more difficult
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Russian President Vladimir Putin travelled May 16 on a state visit to China to meet President Xi Jinping in a display of the increasingly close ties between Moscow and Beijing, despite the threat of more sanctions.