The Chinese defense minister arrived in Moscow on Sunday, April 16 for a three-day official visit, which began with great fanfare with a working meeting with Vladimir Putin himself. A visit to Russia by Li Shangfu is far from trivial, a month after that of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
In the opinion of many observers, these two high-level trips, back-to-back, hide behind the scenes an increasingly marked rapprochement between the military sectors of the two countries.