MAYNES: You know, state visits don't come together overnight. So this is President Xi's first trip abroad since being elected to a third term. Joining us to talk about it all is NPR's Charles Maynes in Moscow.įADEL: Good morning. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Moscow and will spend three days there, where the two leaders will surely discuss the war in Ukraine.įADEL: Yeah. INSKEEP: He's one of Putin's few friends, outside of Russia, and he's dropping by. Russia's Vladimir Putin has a visitor today. They did trigger an insurgency that lasted for years, and the war killed hundreds of thousands of people.įADEL: And on this anniversary, we have news of a different war - the one in Ukraine. troops never found the weapons of mass destruction that the U.S. INSKEEP: An American army soon followed and toppled the government. It was 20 years ago today that the United States began its invasion, firing missiles into Baghdad. It's the anniversary of an event that shaped millions of lives.Įven yours and mine, Leila, in a small way.
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