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Russia's top diplomat starts China visit with call to reduce U.S. dollar use

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Gabrielle Tetrault-Farber and Andrew Osborn
Reuters
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

MOSCOW -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today began a visit to China with a call for Moscow and Beijing to reduce their dependence on the U.S. dollar and Western payment systems to push back against what he called the West's ideological agenda.

Lavrov, on a two-day visit to China, is expected to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart at a time when both countries' ties with the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden are badly strained.

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Monday, March 22, 2021

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U.S. and Chinese officials on Friday concluded what Washington called "tough and direct" talks in Alaska, while Russia's ambassador arrived back in Moscow on Sunday for consultations after Biden said he believed President Vladimir Putin was a killer.

Russia is also braced for a new round of U.S. sanctions over what Washington says was its meddling in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which Moscow denies.

Speaking to Chinese media before the start of his visit, Lavrov said Moscow and Beijing were compelled to develop independently of Washington in order to thwart what he said were U.S. attempts to curb their technological development. ...

... For the remainder of the report:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-china-usa/russias-top-diplomat...

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