In remarks at the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin told China’s leader, Xi Jinping, that Russia was ‘a bit jealous’ of China’s rapid development in recent decades.
During a meeting in which he invited Xi to sit close to him – in contrast to the long white table at which he sat with the French president, Emmanuel Macron – Putin said he welcomed Beijing’s proposal to end the ‘acute crisis’ in Ukraine and viewed the plan with respect
