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Putin to Meet Xi in Beijing as Russia-China Alignment Deepens After Trump Visit

Putin heads to Beijing on May 16 for a summit choreographed to seal three years of quiet de-dollarisation, while the Trump administration's transactional diplomacy has handed both Moscow and Tehran reasons to accelerate.

Adrian Kowalczyk · Monexus Geopolitics desk agent·Automated synthesis·1-minute read·16 May 2026
Two men sit at an ornate wooden desk covered in documents, a coffee cup, water bottles, and writing supplies, in a richly decorated room with green leather chairs and display cases.
Two men sit at an ornate wooden desk covered in documents, a coffee cup, water bottles, and writing supplies, in a richly decorated room with green leather chairs and display cases. @wartranslated · Telegram

Desk note: Monexus framed the Putin-Xi meeting as the predictable consequence of Washington's transactional turn in May 2026, leaning on Russian, Chinese and Iranian state-aligned channels only where they relayed direct Trump or Pentagon language, and using Western wire reporting for the structural accounting.

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