Relations with North Korea, the U.S. and China will be of particular importance, said Tom Rafferty, Asia regional director at The Economist Intelligence Unit.
President Xi Jinping has backed keeping China fully open to wheat imports from Russia in spite of sweeping sanctions imposed by the West in a bid to stop Putin s war in Ukraine.
China is ready to throw Russia an economic lifeline as Vladimir Putin's ties with the west deteriorate and Moscow is hit by snowballing sanctions over the
China could buy more Russian energy and lend Moscow cash to help Vladimir Putin weather the storm of sanctions imposed by the West over the Ukraine crisis, experts have predicted.