Chinese President Xi Jinping has begun a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Beijing, official news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday.

Russia is sinking ever deeper into economic dependence on China. Raw-material projects in the Far East and Siberia are turning the region into a resource base for Beijing, while local communities remain excluded from the promised benefits.

Russia is seeking to reaffirm ties with China after Beijing patched up relations with the US last week.

(Reuters) -China wants to strengthen cooperation with Russia and defend shared security interests, Premier Li Qiang told visiting Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Monday. At talks in the Chinese city of Hangzhou,

India used the air base at Ayni in Tajikistan during a 2001 evacuation operation after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan.

The Asian nations are the world’s most prolific purchasers of Russian oil — together accounting for a whopping 85% of Moscow’s exports in August, according to the Center for Research

China’s rulers want to show it is in their people’s interests to keep America focused on Europe, according to the EU’s foreign-policy chief

Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, the chair of Nato’s military committee, said last week that Russia and China are together trying to “reshape the rules of access and influence [in the Arctic] to their advantage, challenging openness, fairness, and the rule of law”.