{"id":151595,"date":"2026-05-19T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151595"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:00:09","slug":"vodka-bullet-train-and-boat-rides-how-xi-and-putin-built-up-a-personal-rapport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151595","title":{"rendered":"Vodka, bullet train and boat rides: how Xi and Putin built up a personal rapport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFew relationships among world leaders have been portrayed as personally as that between President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.<br \/>\nXi, who rarely publicly reveals much about his personal life or emotions, once described Putin as his \u201cbest and most intimate friend\u201d.<br \/>\nOver the years, their rapport has been defined not only by summits and state visits, but also a growing catalogue of highly personal rituals involving food, birthday celebrations, sports events, boat rides and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3354045\/vodka-bullet-train-and-boat-rides-how-xi-and-putin-built-personal-rapport?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFew relationships among world leaders have been portrayed as personally as that between President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Xi, who&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}