« Cette visite témoigne de la solidité de l’axe russo-chinois » : après la venue de Donald Trump, Vladimir Poutine vient resserrer les liens avec Xi Jinping

Cette image est extraite de cet article du Figaro. | Vladimir Poutine et Xi Jinping lors du sommet de coopération de Shanghai, le 1er septembre 2025. SUO TAKEKUMA / AFP
LE FIGARO : DÉCRYPTAGE - Le voyage du président russe vise à afficher la ténacité de son partenariat, mais trahit l’anxiété de Moscou face au récent rapprochement sino-américain.

À peine Air Force One envolé que la Chine déroule le tapis rouge pour l’Iliouchine de Vladimir Poutine, surnommé le « Kremlin volant », ce mardi 19 mai. Après avoir tenu tête à Donald Trump à Zhongnanhai la semaine dernière, Xi Jinping accueille dans la foulée son « vieil ami » russe, en position de force dans le triangle mouvant Washington-Moscou-Pékin, secoué par le Moyen-Orient.

Sur les pas du trublion de l’Amérique d’abord, cette visite d’État de deux jours vise à afficher la solidité du « partenariat sans limite » scellé face à l’Occident par les dirigeants en 2022, mais consacre aussi l’ascendant du géant chinois face à un Kremlin anxieux du pas de deux sino-américain.

Il s’agit de la vingt-cinquième visite en Chine de Poutine, a rappelé la diplomatie chinoise, pointant un déplacement presque de routine sous le signe la connivence stratégique entre deux dirigeants qui se sont rencontrés à plus de quarante reprises. Alors que Trump était le premier président américain à fouler le sol de l’empire du Milieu depuis près d’une décennie, son homologue russe était aux premières loges sur la place Tiananmen, à la droite de Xi, le 3 septembre dernier, lors d’un spectaculaire défilé de l’armée populaire de libération (APL), aux avant-postes d’un front anti-occidental. » | Par Sébastien Falletti correspondant en Asie | mardi 19 mai 2026

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Why Did Trump Fly to China to Kiss the Ass of the Most Powerful Man in the World?

May 17, 2026 | Trump flew to China to meet with Xi Jinping, and the whole thing looked less like strength and more like desperation.

He’s in way over his head with Iran. The war has exposed what many of us already knew:

Trump loves acting like a strongman, but when the pressure gets real, he runs to actual powerful leaders hoping they can bail him out. This trip wasn’t about “America First.” It was about Trump needing Xi Jinping’s help, needing China’s leverage, needing the red carpets, the dinners, the gifts, the praise, and the pageantry to cover up the fact that he has no real plan.

Reports say Trump left China without major breakthroughs on Iran, Taiwan, or AI, while Xi got the optics he wanted: China standing on equal footing with the United States.

Trump talked about lifting sanctions on Chinese companies buying Iranian oil, but there were no clear, concrete wins announced. This is the problem with fake strength. Trump can talk tough at rallies, insult journalists, threaten political opponents, and pretend he’s some fearless negotiator. But on the world stage, he looks small. Xi Jinping knows it. Iran knows it. The world knows it. Trump didn’t go to China looking powerful. He went looking for a way out.

”Donald Trump Kisses Up & Down President Xi’s Ass!”

May 15, 2026

Trump talks such BS! — © Mark Alexander

Affichant sa force, Xi tient en respect l’Amérique de Trump et promeut la stabilité

LE FIGARO : RÉCIT - Le président américain a qualifié d’« incroyable » sa visite en Chine. Mais le bilan de son voyage reste maigre. Les démonstrations d’amitié entre les deux pays n’ont pas masqué leur rivalité stratégique, esquisse de l’émergence d’un monde bipolaire.

Surnommée « the Beast », la limousine blindée de Donald Trump s’est engouffrée entre les colonnes ocre du portail traditionnel protégeant le saint des saints de la Chine communiste, vendredi. Le président Xi Jinping a offert le thé à son homologue américain à Zhongnanhai, la résidence barricadée des dirigeants du Parti à Pékin, en point d’orgue d’une visite affichant une bonne entente de façade entre les deux premières puissances mondiales.

Des lieux familiers pour ce « prince rouge », élevé à quelques encablures de la Cité interdite à l’ère maoïste, et qui a tenu en respect le magnat de l’immobilier new-yorkais pendant cette visite de deux jours, placée sous la bannière de la stabilité, en s’affichant sur un pied d’égalité. « Nous devons être des partenaires et non des rivaux », a ainsi lancé Xi, qui a déployé un faste impérial pour son hôte, de la place Tiananmen au Temple du ciel, hauts lieux de la capitale chinoise. Et lui a offert un brownie au chocolat après des raviolis à la vapeur pour conclure leur ultime déjeuner de travail avant l’envol d’Air Force One. » | Par Sébastien Falletti, correspondant en Asie | vendredi 15 mai 2026

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Trump Looked ‘Nothing Like the Man We Know’ in Beijing

May 15, 2026 | Mark Logan, former Member of Parliament, and Vice-Chair All Party Parliamentary China Group, joins Maddie Hale to analyse Donald Trump’s two day trip to Beijing to meet with Xi Jinping.

Trump Hits Back after Xi Claims US Is ‘Declining Nation’

THE TELEGRAPH: Donald Trump has pushed back on claims made by Xi Jinping that America is a “declining nation”.

The US president accepted that “tremendous damage” had been done to the US in recent years but blamed his predecessor Joe Biden.

“When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, and on that score, he was 100% correct,” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social ahead of the second day of talks. » | Emily Blumenthal. Connor Stringer Chief Washington Correspondent, Beijing. Allegra Mendelson Asia Correspondent, Taipei. Robert White | Friday, May 15, 2026

Xi Jinping is right, of course. A blind man could see that the US is in steep decline. The country shows all the signs of an empire in decline. It is rotting from within.

Trump is wrong, and very unfair to blame “Sleepy Joe” for the rot. The rot started for America long before Biden’s presidency. Fact is, America has never been the same since 9/11. That attack did more to damage America and its trajectory than is easy to describe in a few words. And when it comes to apportioning blame, Trump himself must share the lion’s share of the blame in recent years. His corrupt and ludicrous presidency has brought America’s decline forward. It has also brought it into sharp focus. — © Mark Alexander

Trump Was Flattering, Xi Was Resolute. The Difference Spoke Volumes.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In contrast to his rhetoric about China at home, President Trump spoke in conciliatory terms with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader.

For President Trump, the first day of his visit to Beijing was all about the personal relationship between him and Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader.

“You’re a great leader,” he told his host, whom he has often said he admires for his “powerful” control over a nation of 1.4 billion people. “I say it to everybody.”

Mr. Xi, unsurprisingly, spent little time on flattery. Once the 21-gun salute and precision-marching by units of the People’s Liberation Army were finished, the disciplined Chinese leader plunged right away into setting boundaries for the two country’s relations. The red line was Taiwan, he said, making it abundantly clear that Mr. Trump’s effort at rapprochement could crash on takeoff if he interferes with China’s long-term effort to take control of the self-governing island.

“The U.S. must handle the Taiwan issue with utmost caution,” he said according to a readout from Xinhua, China’s official news agency. The warning came just minutes into his public remarks in the Great Hall of the People, the center of power for the People’s Republic starting just a decade into Mao’s revolution. For Mr. Xi, it was all about setting boundaries, from the start.

The moment seemed to capture the new equilibrium between the two adversaries. Mr. Xi arrived highly scripted, leaving no doubt that for all of China’s problems — deflation, depopulation, the bursting of the real estate bubble — the moment when China acts as a peer superpower had arrived. » | David E. Sanger | David E. Sanger has covered five American presidents and their encounters with China, a subject of his latest book. He reported from Beijing. | Thursday, May 14, 2026

Xi Warns Trump of Potential "Conflict" over Taiwan in Beijing Summit on Iran, Trade, Tech & More

May 14, 2026 | U.S. President Donald Trump is in Beijing for a highly anticipated summit with his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping. It is the first U.S. state visit to China since 2017, during Trump's first administration. Trade, the Iran war, artificial intelligence and the fate of Taiwan are some of the issues being discussed, although it's not clear if any new agreements are likely. Trump traveled to China with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, along with a delegation of top U.S. executives including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Elon Musk of Tesla and Jensen Huang of Nvidia.

The summit comes after years of rising hostility between the two superpowers, but leaders recognize the importance of improving the bilateral relationship, says Zhao Hai, director of international political studies at the Institute of World Economics and Politics in Beijing. "This is a very critical historical moment [at] a crossroad, and both sides now are working together to establish a stable relationship that will have a global ramification," he says.

We also speak with Jake Werner, a historian of modern China and director of the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He says the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the resulting economic chaos have strengthened China's position.

"China has ties to all the countries in the region. It has acted in the past to help broker the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran," says Werner. "So it has some experience in this realm, sort of acting as a broker towards peace."


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China’s Xi Warns Trump on Taiwan at Beijing Summit

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Xi Jinping, China’s leader, told President Trump that Taiwan, if handled poorly, could lead to a clash with the United States. The two leaders are also expected to discuss trade and the Iran war at the two-day summit.

China’s leader, Xi Jinping, delivered a warning on Taiwan to President Trump as the two leaders began their summit in Beijing on Thursday, saying that the issue, if handled poorly, could lead to conflict and “an extremely dangerous situation.”

The two men met in the Chinese capital in a ceremony laden with pageantry and pleasantries. But Mr. Xi’s warning was a stark reminder that Taiwan, a self-governing island claimed by China, is a red line.

The two-day summit, the first U.S. presidential visit to China in nearly a decade, could determine whether a détente that has prevailed between the two countries will continue — and what concessions, if any, either side is willing to make.

Mr. Xi greeted Mr. Trump on Thursday morning outside the Great Hall of the People. They shook hands before walking together past an honor guard and rows of cheering children. As “The Star-Spangled Banner” played, a 21-gun salute echoed across Tiananmen Square.

Inside the Great Hall, Mr. Xi called for the two countries to work together to confront an increasingly “complex and turbulent world.”

“We should be partners, not adversaries,” he said.

Mr. Trump emphasized his personal relationship with Mr. Xi, and said the two leaders speak to each other on the phone to work out problems. “You’re a great leader,” he told Mr. Xi.

But Mr. Xi made clear that Taiwan had the potential to spoil the relationship. “If handled poorly, the two countries will collide or even clash, putting the entire U.S.-China relationship in an extremely dangerous situation,” he said while referring to Taiwan, according to a readout from Xinhua, China’s official news agency.

One of China’s related priorities is persuading the United States to curtail its arms sales to Taiwan.

Aside from Taiwan, Mr. Xi and Mr. Trump discussed trade, the Middle East, Ukraine and the Korean Peninsula, according to Xinhua. Details about the talks were not immediately released and there was little indication of whether there had been any breakthroughs. Live Updates » | Lily Kuo and David E. Sanger | David E. Sanger reported from the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. | Thursday, May 14, 2026

Face à un Donald Trump pressé par le temps, la Chine joue la montre

LE FIGARO : DÉCRYPTAGE - Xi Jinping reçoit avec faste son homologue américain enlisé au Moyen-Orient, pour arracher un répit stratégique et des garanties sur Taïwan.

À Pékin, Xi Jinping offre un accueil impérial à Donald Trump, sans jamais déroger. Le président chinois accompagnera son hôte jeudi sur les dalles de pierre du Temple du Ciel, là où les empereurs accomplissaient jadis les rites confucéens en quête de récoltes propices et de certitudes face au chaos du monde.

Après la Cité interdite, en 2017, la Chine déroule à nouveau le tapis rouge au président américain, dans un autre haut lieu de son histoire, à l’occasion de la première visite d’un président américain depuis près d’une décennie, sur fond de rivalité stratégique au long cours.

Face aux caméras, la promenade des dirigeants projettera la force tranquille d’une seconde puissance mondiale tenant tête au trublion de l’Amérique d’abord, en pleine convulsion géopolitique au Moyen-Orient. La Chine entend travailler avec les États-Unis « sur un pied d’égalité » afin de développer la coopération, de gérer les différends et d’injecter « plus de certitude dans un monde instable et interdépendant », a déclaré Guo Jiakun, un porte-parole du ministère des Affaires étrangères, à la veille de cette visite qui débute ce 13 mai. » | Par Sébastien Falletti, correspondant en Asie | mercredi 13 mai 2026

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Après les manœuvres militaires chinoises autour de Taïwan, Xi Jinping affirme que «la réunification de notre patrie est inarrêtable»

LE FIGARO : Pékin a lancé des missiles et déployé des dizaines d’avions de chasse, navires de guerre et bateaux de garde-côtes pour encercler l’île lundi et mardi.

Le président chinois, Xi Jinping, a déclaré mercredi que la réunification du pays était inarrêtable, lors d'un discours à la Nation peu après l'annonce par Pékin de la fin des manœuvres militaires autour de Taïwan. «La réunification de notre patrie, dans l'air du temps, est inarrêtable», a affirmé Xi Jinping en présentant son message du Nouvel An 2026 à Pékin, a rapporté l'agence de presse officielle Chine nouvelle. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | mercredi 31 décembre 2025

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Pivotal Regional Powers Are Turning Away from America and toward China

Sep 7, 2025 | CNN’s Fareed Zakaria speaks with The Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum about China calling attention to its growing global strength, with a huge military parade and a summit between China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

Trump Accuses Xi Jinping, Putin, and Kim Jong Un of 'Conspiring' against the US | DW News

Sep 4, 2025 | China marked 80 years since Japan's surrender in the Second World War with its largest ever parade on Wednesday - a two-hour show of national unity, diplomatic depth and military might. President Xi was the star of the show. He traveled in an open-top car and wore a Mao-style suit as a tribute to the founding father of the People’s Republic. His guests were a rogue’s gallery of leaders who reject the American-led world order, among them Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who rarely leaves his country. Also on display was an array of military hardware, some of it never seen before. Xi cast himself as the leader of a new world order and characterized his country as “unstoppable” in a speech delivered at Wednesday’s parade.

World Leaders Snub Trump at Beijing Military Parade, as Putin, Kim and Xi Mark the End of WW2

Sep 4, 2025 | Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who made a rare foreign trip to attend, flanked President Xi as they ascended to the viewing platform overlooking Tiananmen Square and watched the display of military hardware and marching troops. Observers say the joint appearance was a show of unity against the United States.

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Putin and Xi Heading towards ‘More Aggressive’ War | Former Head of MI6

Sep 3, 2025 | “You can see the manoeuvring that’s been carried out particularly by China and Russia to create a new international security system, that’s the problem at the moment.”

“We should be concerned about the reconfiguration of global security”, says former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove, as it could become a “more aggressive confrontation in the future.”

À Pékin, le président Xi Jinping déroule le tapis rouge à Vladimir Poutine et Kim Jong-un

LE FIGARO : Le dirigeant chinois a orchestré ce mercredi la plus grande parade militaire de l’histoire du pays pour commémorer les 80 ans de la victoire sur le Japon.

La place Tiananmen s’est transformée en théâtre de la puissance chinoise. Ce mercredi 3 septembre, Xi Jinping a présidé le plus grand défilé militaire jamais organisé par la Chine : une cérémonie grandiose pour marquer le 80e anniversaire de la défaite japonaise à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le président chinois, vêtu d’un costume qui n’est pas sans rappeler celui de Mao Zedong, a accueilli tour à tour Kim Jong-un puis Vladimir Poutine, et avant eux, une vingtaine de dirigeants étrangers. » | Par Ségolène Forgar | mercredi 3 septembre 2025

Xi Uses Summit, Parade and History to Flaunt China’s Global Pull

THE NEW YORK TIMES: With the leaders of Russia and India visiting, China’s president will show how he can use statecraft, military might and history to push for global influence.

Xi Jinping could hardly have scripted a more favorable moment. This weekend, the leaders of India and Russia joined him at a security summit in China — one leader pushed away by President Trump’s tariffs, the other brought out of isolation by his embrace.

For Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, U.S. tariffs on Indian goods have raised doubts about leaning too heavily on Washington. For President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, his red-carpet treatment in Alaska by Mr. Trump blunted Western efforts to punish him for the invasion of Ukraine.

At the center is Mr. Xi, turning America’s alienation of India into an opportunity, and finding validation for his own long alignment with Mr. Putin.

The summit of more than 20 leaders, mostly from Central Asia, followed by a military parade in Beijing showcasing China’s newest missiles and warplanes, is not just pageantry. It shows how Mr. Xi is trying to turn history, diplomacy and military might into tools for reshaping a global order that has been dominated by the United States. » | David Pierson, Mujib Mashal and Nataliya Vasilyeva | David Pierson reported from Tianjin, China, Mujib Mashal from New Delhi and Nataliya Vasilyeva from Istanbul. | Published: Saturday, August 30, 2025. Updated: Sunday, August 31, 2025

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‘We’re Your True Friends,’ Xi Tells Putin, as Trump Courts Russia

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Chinese and Russian leaders reaffirmed their relationship in a video call on Monday, an apparent rebuff to the idea that the Trump administration could drive a wedge between them.

China’s leader said his country and Russia were “true friends who have been through thick and thin together” after a video call with President Vladimir V. Putin on Monday, part of a pointed mutual affirmation of allegiance between Beijing and Moscow as President Trump has turned toward the Kremlin.

The warm words attributed to Xi Jinping in Chinese state media were clearly intended to dampen speculation that the Trump administration, which has pursued a rapid rapprochement with Russia, might succeed in driving a wedge between Beijing and Moscow.

The call came on the anniversary of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, after three years in which China extended a lifeline to Russia by helping Mr. Putin weather economic isolation from the West and struggles on the battlefield.

Shortly before the invasion of Ukraine, Mr. Xi and Mr. Putin heralded a “no limits” partnership. Since then, China has sustained Russia’s war machine with oil purchases and exports of dual-use technologies. » | David Pierson and Paul Sonne | David Pierson reported from Hong Kong and Paul Sonne from Berlin. | Monday, February 24, 2025