that has just wrapped up with russian president vladimir putin calling his meeting with chinese president xi jingping successful. today, the two leaders signing a joint declaration deepening their partnership. and the summit obviously comes at a critical time for the war in ukraine. there are strong indications now that russia and china are moving closer both economically and militarily. xi is framing himself as a possible peace broker and they say it could be the basis for ending the war. but the u.s. and western allies remain deeply sceptical. there are signs that russia has requested lethal aid from china but added they don t see evidence that weapons are being delivered. we have team coverage on this. ivan watson is in ukraine. but let s begin with will ripley in taiwan. what more do we know about the talks in moscow today? well, you know, there was a line from vladimir putin as they were signing these documents deepening their partnership that really summed up the re
jessica, i think that it s pretty clear that the chinese want to provide some kind of aid to the russians. the military that they would provide, you know, the difference between lethal and nonlethal is semantic at this point, but the basic idea is that the chinese want to keep the russians involved in ukraine. it gives them a way to put the russians in a certain area. it also makes the russians a bit of a junior partner. what we ve seen is the weakness of the russian military and it also frees the chinese to potentially do things in taiwan. that becomes their major goal in this area. and, jill, i m fascinated by the language here, coming from xi jingping. he recently talked about china s problems being caused by the u.s. strategy of containment, that s cold war language, and today, he said that china stands
line from vladimir putin as they were signing these documents deepening their partnership that really summed up the reason why these two are getting together, why xi jingping picked a guy that is, you know, potentially facing war crimes trial at some point down the road. he s a global pariah, heavily sanctioned by the west and xi jingping is taking a lot of heat from the west for his support which was announced even before the war began and is now strengthening through the war. i mean, china has been, you know, bolstering russia s economy, predicting them in many ways from the impact of sanctions by buying russian oil, selling them things that are sanctioned by the west, including high-tech microchipping. they ve been selling parts that can be used for military purposes. whether they re going to take that to the next level and give them ammunition or military equipment has yet to be seen. and there wouldn t be a big announcement about that. the reason that xi is favoring
ukra ukrainian capital today. the prime minister of japan showed up unexpectedly. didn t make it public for security reasons. he s meeting with the ukrainian president today. the leader of the third largest economy in the world. another major power in asia here while xi jingping is meeting with the russian president showing his support for ukraine, even as europe has pledged another 1.5 billion euros to support ukraine in its fight against its much larger enemy. a major moment there, no doubt. we should point out that xi has met with vladimir putin some 40 times. he s not yet directly had a conversation with vladimir putin to this point. ivan, thank you so much. we re following new developments on a plan to speed up the shipments of u.s. weapons to ukraine. let s take you to fort sill, oklahoma, now. we re there and we have new reporting on this plan to get tanks and patriot missile systems to ukraine faster than