Overview
- Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin held talks with President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, closing a two‑day visit that followed a government heads’ meeting with Premier Li Qiang in Hangzhou.
- Both sides recorded 15 signed documents, including agricultural pest‑control cooperation, training for polar‑waters maritime crews, and phytosanitary rules for Russian wheat bran exports to China.
- The communique commits Moscow and Beijing to preserve progress on settlements in national currencies, provide firm mutual support on core interests, and deepen coordination through BRICS, the SCO, and Eurasian economic linkages with Belt and Road.
- Russia and China agreed to create an Expert Council for AI cooperation and voiced readiness to work together on a proposed World Organization for AI Cooperation advanced by China.
- Separately, Finland’s president proposed a Putin–Trump meeting at the late‑November G20 in Johannesburg, according to Yle, which reported the idea as a public suggestion rather than a confirmed plan.