"Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing early Thursday morning to pay a state visit to China from Thursday to Friday at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
They both attended the opening ceremony of the China-Russia Years of Culture and a special concert celebrating the 75th anniversary of China-Russia diplomatic ties on Thursday in Beijing."
Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to work with counterpart Vladimir Putin to "rejuvenate" their countries as the pair started a day of talks in Beijing, saying China would "always be a good partner" of Russia, according to Chinese state media.
Putin arrived on Thursday for a two-day state visit that will include detailed talks on Ukraine, Asia, energy and trade with Xi, his most powerful political backer and fellow geopolitical rival of the United States.
“Journalis” asked about the next steps in a visit program of Putin in China.
Lavrov replied that Guest is a donkey of master. It is up to master to decide."
Lavrov called Putin a donkey and Xi his master because Putin only listens to China.
In reality, the current the current Russia invasion of Ukraine is costing both side and at the same time both which sides they belong. Russia and Ukraine have grudgingly been together for decades. It is now time for both to choose where they belong and go separately but never going to be peaceful.
Ukraine belong to the North with Western influence while Russian belong to the East.
Watch Russia and China prophetically merge to form one strong Asian Bloc that will be mighty enough to confront the European forces. Just of a recent, Chinese president, Xi, toured Europe with aim to solve the Russian war in Ukraine politically. But the question is, will it work? Time will tell. But the obvious truth is, China has lesser influence in Europe and cannot dictate how they should handle their internal and political affairs.
Note this, Russia wants to rule the world militarily; China wants to rule the economically; Iran wants to rule the world religiously.
This nations are potential allies and have assisted Russia in the ongoing war on Ukraine also are strategic adversaries of the WEST and the western influenced North.
Prophetically, there is another beast, China amd Russia and its allies. The king of the east!