Lavrov met with Xi at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, according to state broadcaster CCTV, a day after he criticised efforts aimed at “containing” Russia and China during talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
In comments apparently referring to the United States and its allies, Lavrov said, “they are trying to dismantle (regional cooperation) by creating small-format, bloc-based structures aimed at containing both the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation”, according to Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti.