{"id":385864,"date":"2025-08-30T22:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T22:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385864\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T22:03:20","slug":"putin-slams-discriminatory-sanctions-ahead-of-china-trip-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385864\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin slams \u2018discriminatory\u2019 sanctions ahead of China trip \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/30\/sco-summit-in-china-whos-attending-whats-at-stake-amid-trump-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snubbed<\/a> last year&#8217;s edition of the gathering, India&#8217;s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also attending the gathering. Relations between India and the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/06\/us-to-hike-tariffs-on-india-to-50-percent-over-russian-oil-purchases-00495411\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/06\/us-to-hike-tariffs-on-india-to-50-percent-over-russian-oil-purchases-00495411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reached a low point<\/a> this month after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/26\/clearly-a-low-moment-u-s-india-relationship-sours-as-new-tariffs-kick-in-00527196\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/26\/clearly-a-low-moment-u-s-india-relationship-sours-as-new-tariffs-kick-in-00527196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50 percent tariff on Indian goods<\/a> over the country&#8217;s purchase of Russian oil.<\/p>\n<p>Putin will stay in China through Wednesday, when Xi is hosting a military parade to commemorate the end of World War II, following Japan&#8217;s formal surrender.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Putin and North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong Un, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.www.gov.cn\/news\/202508\/28\/content_WS68afec79c6d0868f4e8f5223.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slovakia&#8217;s Prime Minister Robert Fico will attend<\/a> the parade, as well as Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n<p>Several EU foreign ministers on Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-must-join-forces-europe-pressure-putin-ukraine-russia-war-eu-foreign-ministers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> on the United States to team up with Europe to pressure Putin to negotiate an end to his war against Ukraine before a Donald Trump-imposed deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow meanwhile launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4g614x9kqko\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4g614x9kqko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massive overnight attack<\/a> on Ukraine&#8217;s southern and central regions, authorities said, as Kyiv struck Russian oil refineries. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched more than <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1961808807438242003\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1961808807438242003\" target=\"_blank\">500 drones and 45 missiles<\/a>, hitting 14 regions across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were two large-scale attacks by Russia this week \u2014 absolutely brazen actions, through which Russia is demonstrating that without pressure from the world, there will be no end to the war,&#8221; Zelenskyy said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1961808807438242003\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1961808807438242003\" target=\"_blank\">post on X<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And these are all clear signals to the United States, to Europe, and to the leaders who these days are in China and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/prezident-ukrayini-ta-premyer-ministr-indiyi-skoordinuvali-p-99869\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/prezident-ukrayini-ta-premyer-ministr-indiyi-skoordinuvali-p-99869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will be meeting with Putin<\/a>,&#8221; the Ukrainian leader said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After he snubbed last year&#8217;s edition of the gathering, India&#8217;s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also attending the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6502,1111,1395,6215,12495,32,2816,730,774,2122,29515,2597,95889,22817,6564,12,6660,2661,6566,2663,133828,2558,479,1201,657,49,333,771,335,26,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-385864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-aleksandar-vucic","9":"tag-belarus","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-cooperation","12":"tag-development","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-european-politics","15":"tag-india","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-japan","18":"tag-kim-jong-un","19":"tag-military","20":"tag-myanmar","21":"tag-narendra-modi","22":"tag-neighborhood","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-north-korea","25":"tag-oil","26":"tag-robert-fico","27":"tag-sanctions","28":"tag-slovak-politics","29":"tag-slovakia","30":"tag-tariffs","31":"tag-trade","32":"tag-ukraine","33":"tag-united-states","34":"tag-vladimir-putin","35":"tag-war","36":"tag-war-in-ukraine","37":"tag-world","38":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115119980765275280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}