{"id":85466,"date":"2025-05-08T20:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85466\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:01:09","slug":"bffs-putin-and-xi-blast-trumps-proposed-golden-dome-missile-shield-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85466\/","title":{"rendered":"BFFs Putin and Xi blast Trump\u2019s proposed Golden Dome missile shield \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putin, for his part, has been waging a destructive war on Ukraine for more than a decade, and upended Europe&#8217;s established security architecture with his full-scale invasion in February 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/nato-chief-is-worried-about-russian-space-nukes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NATO chief Mark Rutte<\/a> \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/14\/us\/politics\/intelligence-russia-nuclear.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. intelligence officials<\/a> \u2014 have also warned about the risk of Russia placing nuclear weapons in space. <\/p>\n<p>But Moscow and Beijing claimed nuclear states must \u201creject Cold War mentality\u201d and avoid seeking military superiority \u201cat the expense of the security of other States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/76870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian state-owned media<\/a>, 26 documents were signed during the meeting, including a joint declaration on strengthening cooperation on supporting international law.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly four hours of talks, Xi described his meeting with his Russian counterpart as \u201cin-depth, friendly and fruitful.\u201d Putin said the talks were \u201cwarm and substantive,\u201d and claimed ties between Russia and China were stronger than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Flights into Moscow were disrupted Wednesday after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukrainian-drone-attacks-close-moscow-airports\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukrainian-drone-attacks-close-moscow-airports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukrainian drone strikes<\/a> forced airport closures ahead of Friday\u2019s Victory Day parade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Putin, for his part, has been waging a destructive war on Ukraine for more than a decade, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[1395,32,332,413,49,333,1116,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-85466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-vladimir-putin","14":"tag-weapons","15":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114473998191876958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85466","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=85466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}