Published on 23 Jan 2022 on South China Morning Post via Yahoo Finance
How China and Russia forged a friendship after bridging decades-old differences
Nearly 2,000km (1,200 miles) from Beijing, over a frozen river separating China and Russia, a steel bridge stands ready for the leaders of the two countries to personally declare it open.
No launch date has been announced, but the Kremlin underscored the bridge's importance with the release of a transcript from a November meeting that discussed the opening ceremony.
Ruslan Baysarov, board chairman of BTS-Most, which built Russia's section, told the Kremlin working group he had asked President Vladimir Putin to invite his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping "because this is a very great and important event - the first bridge".