Days after Air Force One departed Beijing, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit the Chinese capital for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Watch an exchange between the two men in which the Chinese leader sought to signal exclusivity and name-dropped Russia’s president.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to travel to Beijing next week for a two-day meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, according to a Saturday announcement from the Kremlin. The state visit,

The Russian leader has not yet committed to attend the annual gathering of world leaders, which is scheduled for December at the president's Doral golf resort.

President Donald Trump's second and final day of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing includes a working lunch before Trump heads back to the U.S.

The lack of concrete agreements with Beijing shows the risks of President Trump’s personality-driven foreign policy, which rests on the belief that he can defend U.S. interests through charm and force of will.

The Kremlin said earlier in the day that Mr Putin had not yet decided if he would attend. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Beijing has reportedly pressed the Trump administration to scale back its security commitments and revise U.S. official policy toward the island. China claims the democratically governed island as its own territory — a claim that Taiwan's current ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rejects — and has long criticized U.S. arms sales to Taipei.