Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on Thursday to deepen their "strategic partnership" while scolding the United States for a series of moves that they said threatened their countries.

The meeting comes weeks after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken tried to dissuade Beijing from supporting Russia's war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China on Thursday for talks with Xi Jinping that the Kremlin hopes will deepen a strategic partnership between the two most powerful geopolitical rivals of the United States.

China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin on Thursday pledged a "new era" of partnership between the two most powerful rivals of the United States, which they cast as an aggressive Cold War hegemon sowing chaos across the world.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin pledged to step up cooperation against US “containment” of their countries. Both leaders accused Washington of planning to station missile systems around the world that “pose a direct threat to the security of Russia and China,