restaurant paper moon

• United Kingdom
• West End London
• Charing Cross

Paper Moon London

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• Dining style Casual Elegant
• Price £41 and over
• Cuisines Italian
• Hours of operation Mon–Sat 12:00 pm–1:30 am Sun 12:00 pm–12:00 am
• Phone number 020 3963 5949
• Website http://www.papermoonlondon.com/
• Payment options AMEX, Mastercard, Visa
• Dress code Smart Casual
• Executive chef Leonardo Pieri Buti
• Location Whitehall, London, Greater London SW1A 2EU
• Neighborhood Charing Cross
• Parking details Valet
• Additional Bar/Lounge, Beer, Cocktails, Full Bar, Gluten-free Options, Late Night, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Vegan, Wheelchair Access, Wine

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• 4.6 Service
• 4.6 Ambience

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Dined on April 20, 2024

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How is Paper Moon London restaurant rated?

Paper Moon London is rated 4.5 stars by 110 OpenTable diners.

Is Paper Moon London currently accepting reservations?

Yes, you can generally book this restaurant by choosing the date, time and party size on OpenTable.

Whitehall, London, Greater London SW1A 2EU

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"Welcome to Paper Moon London – we offer the perfect blend of authentic Italian fare and stylish surroundings to transport you and your guests to the heart of Italy."

ITALIAN SOPHISTICATION WITH A WARM WELCOME

A Milanese favourite since 1977, Paper Moon has opened its first UK restaurant at The OWO, where timeless Italian dishes and cocktails are served in convivial elegance.

Opening hours

MONDAY TO SATURDAY 12PM - 1.30AM (RESTAURANT CLOSES AT 11PM)

SUNDAY 12PM - 12AM (RESTAURANT CLOSES AT 10.30)

ACCESS IS VIA horse guards avenue → Paper Moon is located within the Grand Courtyard

Discover an authentic Italian dining experience in the heart of London. Year-round classic Italian cuisine meets dynamic, seasonal dishes for both lunch and dinner.

With space for over 80 covers, a multitude of rooms, and our sumptuous marble bar and lounge, Paper Moon London hosts a variety of unique events.

RESERVATIONS

From relaxed lunches to intimate dinners, Paper Moon London’s refined setting and welcoming atmosphere makes for the perfect culinary experience.

Contact details

+44 (0) 203 963 5949

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Food is bad and expensive. The atmosphere is yet nice. Rabbit stew in wine was overcooked, like it was a Soviet canteen. Baked feta cheese with some tinned cherries was bland, tasteless and overpriced.

We had this place recommend to us, omg what a place the only thing we kept going back for was Gyros which are basically chicken and pork wraps with salad and chips. 3 Euros that's it. What a place. Gregory the owner very nice man

Food really good , the manager manage one little inconvenient very well , I recommend souvlaki , horiatiki salad

This place is a big disappointment! Service is really poor. Will never come back and would not recommend to anyone. There are plenty nice places in Moscow

Had an afterwork dinner with a colleague, ordered a fantastic tzatziki-starter, a meat-stuffed paprika as main course that was really good as well, sat outside in a real nice taverna-styled restuatant, served by nice english speaking staff. With a bit more (spice) taste especially the... main course, would give a 5. More

tstranne, thank you very much for your review! We are more than happy, that you enjoyed your stay at Molon Lave. We will be looking forward to seeing you again, at "beforework" breakfast, for example :)

This restaurant is very authentic, with really Greek atmosphere, native Greek waiters and extremely good food. Definitely to come back and repeat this experience:) On Saturday evenings they also have some show with dances.

I ve been here with my family. Super tasty, portions are small (that's sad). Reservation preferable since the place is small

There are very nice greek custine, nice people working there, pretty interrior and more or less friendly prices. I think it's one of the best reastaurant in Moscow if you want european cuisine.

It was one of my favorite restaurants in Moscow when they opened it. Food was delicious and they served one my favorite dessert ever - Bougatsa. After one year I went there for breakfast and I must say, that quality of food gets worse. Omelette... was very ordinary and tasteless. And we waited for it for 40 minutes. Even my dessert now looks not so good. That always sad when good places in Russia believes they already did their best to get peoples trust and decide to relax. More

Usually Greek restaurants outside Greece, are not as original as in the country. Surprisingly, Molon Lave is an exception. Real Greek tastes, lot of choices, in a nice environment. We were really satisfied with the quality of the food. Strongly recommended if you miss or... like Greek cuisine. More

I am in love with Greek cuisine and had a chance to take lessons several times from good chefs being in Greece. This restaurant is certainly close to have the real Greek food, but I would say with some alterations. The decor I did not... like at all, it was not cozy or pleasant. Wine by glass was not good at all. They need to improve on it. More

Good Greek food. Owner is friendly and interacts with customers. Both inside and outside seating provides a good ambiance. Compared to more trendy and expensive Semiramis, this restaurant is more Greek but still does not provide the real deal.

Not a professional at all .they do not deserve anything and the owmer is awful not value for money at all

this restaurant is an oasis great job I am happy to review this place to anybody in Moscow Eating Greek food is a treasure not to be missed

We were taken to this restaurant for a leaving lunch on our last day in Moscow. It was a real surprise - authentically cooked Greek dishes, well presented and cooked, at reasonable prices. We had marinated baby octopus, spanakopita, loukaniko, . moussaka, rabbit stew, beef... stefado and Greek salad,, followed by real Greek coffee and sweets.. It was accompanied by some fine Russian beer. Cost for 4 people was A$170 plus wine. Watch out for the wine prices. There is no to little parking available, but it is easily accessible from the metro. Not suitable for disabled people (3 flights of steep stairs). Restaurant can get busy during weekday lunchtime and decor is attractive. Booking is preferable. More

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With many of the best restaurants in Moscow also doubling as bars and clubs, the atmosphere is nearly always one step away from a party, and many of the city’s elite come dressed to impress. Of course, there are still many elegant and family friendly restaurants for those who prefer a quieter evening. With such a large selection available, Elite Traveler has compiled a suitable list for diners of all persuasions.

Café Pushkin

Designed to recreate the feel of a 19th century aristocrat’s house, Café Pushkin has become one of the most popular restaurants in Moscow, thanks to the quality of its food, impeccable service and the excellent vodka selection. The atmosphere of pre-Revolution Russia is delightfully charming, from the flowery script of the menu to aristocratic country house décor. Pushkin is the ideal destination if you want to be treated like Russian nobility and dine like a Tsar – but book ahead, the restaurant’s popularity requires reservation well in advance.

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Lavishly decked out with chandeliers and hand-painted furniture, the menu selection may come as a surprise to first-time guests, with options ranging from Pi Pa duck with melon and truffle to beefsteak with foie gras. Turandot puts a French spin on pan-Asian cuisine, and does so with incredible style and boldness. Whilst the interior décor is certainly to be marvelled at, it is the thoughtfully conceptualized and perfectly executed menu options that make for an incredible dining experience.

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The company has a reputation for the high quality of its restaurants that grace the streets of the capital, and Buono is no exception. The views from Buono are unashamedly spectacular, while the décor is elegant, with soft creams complementing the fine views on offer. The food is classical Italian; Chef William Lamberti is well known throughout Europe and has created an excellent menu. It’s always best to book ahead at Buono, as the window seats that offer the finest views over the city are quickly taken.

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Italian for ‘small’, Piccolino is a cozy, homely restaurant – something of a rarity in Moscow.

Serving typical Italian food, the family friendly establishment is laid back, but this doesn’t compromise the quality of the food: good, hearty portions that are exceptionally tasty. The interior of Piccolino has been designed to replicate that of a large country house, and the décor is entirely fitting with the atmosphere of the restaurant. In a city where many of the establishments value the names of their guests over the quality of their dishes, Piccolino is the place to come if your preference is quality of food rather than famous faces.

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With two tasting menus and an à la carte option, the Twin Gardens at the heart of Moscow caters to any palette. With the restaurant concept based on the symbiosis of science and nature, their Vegetables set menu explores all manner of produce from seedling to peeling, delicately plated in a tasteful homage to the natural life cycle of wild plants and flowers. For more adventurous types, their Rediscover Russia menu offers a culinary tour of various local specialties found in provinces across the vast continent. They also have a wide selection of Russian wines.

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Located in an elegant 19th century mansion, CDL is one of the most sophisticated restaurants in Moscow.

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White Rabbit

With a domed window inviting soaring views of the Moscow cityscape, White Rabbit has recently undergone extensive renovations, to both its interior and its menu. Renowned architect Natalia Belonogova has transformed the restaurant into an airy, modern space, perfected by the addition of a summer veranda. To connect the dining options with the new interior, head chef Vladimir Mukhin has created a new menu, Metamorphoses, to reflect the lifecycle of the mayfly butterfly.

Delight your palette with scallop, strawberries and blackcurrant or, for dessert, dandelion honey with melted cottage cheese. This summerlike and refreshing menu has its roots in Russian soil and its head in the clouds above Moscow’s skyline.

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One of the best places to see and be seen, the O2 Lounge is half stylish seafood restaurant and half trendy pre-club hangout.

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Putin says Russia wants a buffer zone in Ukraine's Kharkiv but has no plans to capture the city

This image released by Maxar Technologies shows a damaged plane, likely a MiG 31 fighter aircraft, at Belbek air base, near Sevastopol, in Crimea, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Credit: AP

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region aims to create a buffer zone but has no plans to capture the city, as Ukraine will allow prisoners to join the army's depleted ranks.

Putin’s comments on a trip to China were his first on the offensive launched on May 10, which opened a new front in the war and displaced thousands of Ukrainians within few days. It came hours after a massive Ukrainian drone attack on the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula early Friday caused power cutoffs in the city of Sevastopol after an earlier attack damaged aircraft and fuel storage at an airbase. In southern Russia, Russian authorities said the attack on Friday also set a refinery ablaze.

Moscow launched attacks in the Kharkiv region in response to Ukrainian shelling of Russia’s Belgorod region, Putin told reporters Friday on a visit to Harbin, China.

“I have said publicly that if it continues, we will be forced to create a security zone, a sanitary zone,” he said. “That's what we are doing.”

Putin said that Russian troops were “advancing daily according to plan" and said that there were no plans to capture Kharkiv, for now.

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Ukrainian troops were fighting Friday to halt Russian advances in Kharkiv region that began late last week. In an effort to increase troop numbers, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed two laws, one to enable prisoners to join the army and another that increases fines for draft dodgers by five times, one day before a controversial mobilization law goes into effect.

The town of Vovchansk, located 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the Russian border, has been a hot spot in the fighting in recent days. Ukrainian authorities have evacuated around 8,000 civilians from the town. The Russian army’s usual tactic is to reduce towns and villages to ruins with aerial strikes before its units move in.

This image released by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of a destroyed SU 27 fighter aircraft in revetment at Belbek airbase, near Sevastopol, in Crimea, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Credit: AP

By starting the new offensive, Russian troops “expanded the zone of active hostilities by almost 70 kilometers” (about 45 miles), in an effort to force Ukraine to spread its forces and use reserve troops, Ukraine’s military chief, Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, said Friday. In the Kharkiv region, Russian forces have advanced 10 kilometers from the border, Zelenskyy told reporters on Friday.

Separately, in his strongest remarks yet on Ukraine’s upcoming peace conferences slated for next month, Putin said it was a vain attempt to enforce terms of a peaceful settlement on Russia. Putin emphasized that Russia wasn’t invited to the Swiss-hosted meeting.

He said that Russia was ready for talks but shrugged off Ukrainian Zelenskyy’s peace formula as wishful thinking. He said that prospective peace talks could be based on a draft deal that was negotiated by Russia and Ukraine during their Istanbul talks in 2022.

Meanwhile, the drone raids on Crimea marked Kyiv's attempt to strike back during Moscow's offensive in northeastern Ukraine, which has added to the pressure on outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian forces, which are waiting for delayed deliveries of crucial weapons and ammunition from Western partners.

This image released by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of a destroyed MiG 31 fighter aircraft and fuel storage facility at Belbek airbase, near Sevastopol, in Crimea, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Credit: AP

A Ukrainian intelligence official confirmed to The Associated Press that Ukraine’s Security Service and Military Intelligence conducted a joint operation to strike Russia’s military infrastructure sites in Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea coast, and occupied Sevastopol. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, because they weren't authorized to comment publicly.

The operation targeted ships and vessels of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and was conducted by aerial drones built in Ukraine, the official said.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 51 Ukrainian drones over Crimea, another 44 over the Krasnodar region of Russia and six over the Belgorod region. It said Russian warplanes and patrol boats also destroyed six sea drones in the Black Sea.

At least three fighter jets were destroyed in an earlier attack in Crimea a few days ago, according to satellite imagery of the airbase provided by Maxar Technologies.

Mikhail Razvozhayev, the governor of Sevastopol, which is the main base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet, said the drone attack damaged the city’s power plant. He said it could take a day to fully restore energy supplies and warned residents that power would be cut to parts of the city.

“Communal services are doing their best to restore the power system as quickly as possible,” he said in a statement.

Razvozhayev also announced that schools in the city would be closed temporarily.

Earlier Ukrainian attacks damaged aircraft and a fuel storage facility at Belbek air base near Sevastopol, according to satellite images released by Maxar Technologies.

In the Krasnodar region, the authorities said a drone attack early Friday caused a fire at an oil refinery in Tuapse which was later contained. There were no casualties.

Ukraine has repeatedly targeted refineries and other energy facilities deep inside Russia, causing significant damage.

The Krasnodar region’s governor, Veniamin Kondratyev, said fragments of downed drones around the port of Novorossiysk caused several fires, but there were no casualties.

Belgorov Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said that a Ukrainian drone struck a vehicle, killing a woman and her 4-year-old child. Another attack set a fuel tank ablaze at a gas station in the region, he said.

In addition to Kharkiv, recent Russian offensive attacks have come in the eastern Donetsk region, as well as the Chernihiv and Sumy regions in the north and in the southern Zaporizhzhia region. The apparent aim is to stretch depleted Ukrainian resources and exploit weaknesses.

Having strengthened their grouping in the northern region, Russian forces are now concentrating their efforts to advance near the village of Lyptsi, as well as the town of Vovchansk, according to Syrskyi, the Ukrainian military commander.

Syrskyi also said he inspected the units that are “preparing for defense” of the Sumy region. On Tuesday, the head of Ukraine’s Military Intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, reportedly said that the Russian army had plans to start offensive actions in Sumy.

Russia has also been testing defenses at other points along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line, which snakes from north to south through eastern Ukraine. That line has barely changed over the past 18 months, in what has become a war of attrition.

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The KGB’s Favorite Restaurant Reopens in Moscow

Aragvi, the haunt of Soviet-era celebrities and spies opens after a 13-year absence and $20 million renovation

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Anyone who stepped into Aragvi during the second half of the 20th century was likely to spot a Eastern bloc movie star, chess champion, cosmonaut or a politburo member. For decades, the restaurant at No. 6/2 Tverskaya Ulitsa in Moscow was the place to be seen for the cream of Soviet society and was a favorite haunt of spies and KGB agents. After the fall of the USSR, however, the restaurant fell on hard times and closed. Now, after almost 15 years, the Georgian restaurant has reopened its doors, hoping its Soviet-era cachet will bring it back to the culinary hip list.

Mary Louise Kelly at NPR reports that the restaurant, opened in 1938, was a favorite with Stalin’s chief of secret police, Lavrentiy Beria, who stopped in often with Stalin’s son Vasily for the Georgian wine. It’s even rumored that Beria designed the state-owned restaurant.

Veteran KGB spy Yury Kobaladze tells Kelly that the restaurant was also a favorite haunt of Kim Philby , a British agent secretly working for the Soviets who served as the liaison between MI6 and the CIA. He defected to the USSR in 1963 after being outed as a double agent. “He liked Georgian food,” Kobaladze says. “That's what he told me. He loved Aragvi.”

Many other people also loved Aragvi since, according to Ilya Krol at The Moscow Times , it was the only place in the city to get Georgian cuisine. “You can't compare today’s dining scene in Moscow with the Soviet one,” poet Lev Rubinshtein, who frequented Aragvi in the 1970s tells Krol. “How many places could you get food from the Caucasus in the capital? Just a few places serving shashlik (grilled meat). Aragvi, with its 12-page menu, had no rival.”

Sergei Solovyov , a director known for  Assa and  Anna Karenina also witnessed the Soviet-era decadence. “I was really shocked when I saw the dishes that you could order there,” he tells Krol. “I can see it as if it were yesterday. They brought our order of lobio, satsivi, shashlik, chicken livers, and caviar to the table … but I was so hungry that I fainted before the waiter brought our plates.”

According to Marina Lapenkova at Agence France-Presse , the formerly state-run restaurant changed hands several times after the fall of the Soviet Union, eventually closing for good in 2003. But the Tashir group and investor Gor Nakhapetyan have spent nearly 15 years and $20 million to restore the nine-room restaurant. The main dining rooms are painted with Soviet murals depicting tractors, workers and sheaves of corn, but otherwise the space does not resemble the previous incarnation.

Head chef Alexei Zenin tells Krol that the menu focuses on authentic versions of Black Sea cuisine, like the dumpling khinkali and the chopped salad  pkhali . Unlike the first time around, the restaurant faces stiff competition. Cheap Georgian food has become very popular in Moscow. That’s why the owners hope to capitalize on the restaurant’s unique history.

But recreating the Cold War ambience exactly would be difficult. Mikhail Lyubimov, a former KGB agent who headed operations against Britain and Scandinavian says most of the staff at the restaurant were retired KGB officers and the restaurant was a great recruiting ground for spies. It was also the spot where agents held farewell parties for colleagues going abroad. He tells Lapenkova he remembers a night “with plenty of drinking, [when] one of our men invited a beautiful woman to dance, not realizing she herself was a US spy and was being tailed by the KGB.”

To get the mood just right, the restaurant would have to bring back the surveillance too. “Everything was bugged, you know?” Kobaladze tells Kelly. “But everybody knew that if you were in Aragvi: don’t talk, keep quiet. The rumor was that all [the] tables had microphones.”

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So where do things stand in Ukraine? In an April 2024 paper, “What Can We Learn from Our ‘Forever War’ in Ukraine,” a former U.S. ambassador with a military background, Charles Freeman, argues instead that America is mistakenly supporting more war rather than a negotiated settlement. He notes that it can be difficult to discern the facts about the war because of “wall-to-wall propaganda that confuses self-righteousness with truth, demonizes our adversary, and replaces analysis with wishful thinking and denial.”

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Freeman points out that when the Cold War ended, the formerly defensive NATO became offensive, expanding to eastern Europe, stationing American troops and aiming weapons at Russia. “By 2021, with our help, Ukraine had acquired a NATO-trained and equipped army larger than the armed forces of Britain, France, and Germany combined,” Freeman wrote. All these bellicose moves stirred Putin to warn in 2021 that such provocations could lead to war; “His warning echoed that of his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin as early as 1994.”

The two columnists point out none of this, which is unsurprising since neither one provides any facts about Ukraine or the war. Freeman draws attention to a context Americans may not be aware of — a 2014 coup in Ukraine that “Washington helped engineer,” then installing “handpicked pro-American, anti-Russian successors.”  Meanwhile, the U.S. “reaffirmed its intention to bring Ukraine into NATO,” prompting Russia to annex Crimea with its large navy base.

Then in December 2021, Russia massed troops on Ukraine’s border, having “demanded negotiations to resolve its security concerns” and insisting on Ukrainian neutrality. “The U.S. and NATO responded by rejecting negotiations.” Repeated U.S. and NATO refusals to negotiate led Russia to invade Ukraine in February 2022. As Freeman acknowledges, the “Russian invasion of Ukraine was clearly illegal under international law, but to say that it was ‘unprovoked’ defies credibility.”

I agree; in my view, Russia was wrong to attack despite multiple provocations. The U.S. was also wrong to refuse negotiations; even when Kyiv and Moscow “agreed to a draft treaty” that would have had Russia withdraw and Ukraine abstain from NATO membership and adopt neutrality, “but the U.S., U.K, and NATO objected to it.” Repeated refusals by the U.S. to enable negotiations have had “grave consequences, mostly for Ukraine.”  “One-third of Ukraine’s people have been dislocated. Over 2 million have fled to Russia and 6 to 8 million to the West and elsewhere.”

Freeman observes, “so many have died that Ukraine can no longer mount an adequate defense, let alone go on the offensive.” Its economy has tanked. Meanwhile, “Russia’s economy has grown, not contracted,” and thus obviously not “weakening Russia,” in the words of a U.S. declared war goal.

Freeman emphasizes that “Moscow has conducted a limited war… It has not marshaled the forces necessary to subdue, occupy, or annex all of Ukraine. Russia’s battlefield performance has not demonstrated any capacity to invade the West, and Moscow has expressed no wish to do so.”

Freeman calls for a new approach. “It’s time to stop attributing objectives to Russia that it has not stated and does not have.” It wants a restoration of Ukrainian neutrality and a negotiated new “security architecture” to create a “durable peace.” Moscow’s objectives “do not include invading NATO territory,” contrary to what the two columnists want to believe. A negotiated settlement is urgently needed, especially for Ukraine. President John F.  Kennedy’s famous, “Let us never fear to negotiate,” have never been more fitting.

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What do Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping want from each other?

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is embarking on his first foreign trip since his splashy inauguration to a fifth term in office, and his destination is no surprise: China.

The two-day state visit beginning Thursday is expected to be heavy on pomp and ceremony, with effusive toasts and carefully choreographed gestures of friendship and mutual respect.

But status matters, and Putin is clearly the junior partner to Chinese President Xi Jinping. As the Economist magazine put it after the visit was announced: “Vladimir Putin will meet his big brother in Beijing.”

Despite inherent lopsidedness in their dealings — China is Russia’s principal trade partner, while Beijing’s largest export market is the United States — Xi has gone out of his way to imbue the visit with a sense of historic significance.

The two leaders are expected to sign a joint declaration after their talks, and there will be a gala celebration marking 75 years of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

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Putin — known for sometimes staging haughty keep-them-waiting displays when other leaders make the trek to the Kremlin — has taken a notably deferential tone toward his host.

In a pre-trip interview with China’s official Xinhua news agency, he expressed admiration for elements of Chinese culture, including martial arts and philosophy.

“Our peoples are bound by a long and strong tradition of friendship and cooperation,” he told Xinhua .

Putin’s expressions of gratitude are well-warranted. Since Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine , Xi has propped up his Russian counterpart in a variety of crucial ways.

China has helped Putin weather wartime Western sanctions, extending a particular lifeline to Russia’s lucrative oil and gas industry. Over the last two-plus years, Russia’s energy exports to China have easily offset the rupture in what had been Moscow’s cozy prewar energy relationship with Europe.

In many ways, the strategic relationship serves both Beijing and Moscow — and represents, in the view of many analysts, two autocrats’ unified challenge to the West.

“China and Russia are forging a partnership increasingly reminiscent of a great power alliance,” military intelligence analyst Chels Michta wrote in a commentary this week for the Center for European Policy Analysis.

But while Xi and Putin share a disdain for a U.S.-led world order, their interests are not identical. And the Ukraine war is at times a complicating factor.

China does not provide Russia with weaponry. But the Biden administration has prodded Xi’s government over its sale to Russia of so-called dual-use items — components such as machine tools, microelectronics and rocket propellant, which have civilian and military uses.

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That came up last month when U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visited Beijing and chided China for “powering Russia’s brutal war of aggression against Ukraine.”

Washington has also said it will take a harder line against Chinese-based financial institutions and firms that help Moscow circumvent wartime restrictions, warning of secondary sanctions against them.

Even as China publicly professes neutrality on Ukraine, many observers believe Putin was emboldened in his war aims by a joint pact struck with Beijing days before the invasion, proclaiming a “no-limits” partnership.

In the course of the Ukraine war, however, some points of friction have emerged. China has been made uneasy by Putin’s occasional strident nuclear threats , the latest of which came this month when the Kremlin announced it would conduct exercises simulating the use of tactical — or battlefield — nuclear weapons near Ukraine.

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In a variety of international settings — most recently during a high-profile European tour last week — Xi has expressed hopes for peace in Ukraine, even as he has refused to condemn Russia’s ongoing attempt to batter its neighbor into submission.

Ukraine has been careful not to publicly denigrate China’s peace proposals — a 12-point plan unveiled more than a year ago, followed by additional “principles” set forth last month — but the government in Kyiv and its allies believe that if Beijing wanted to genuinely play the conciliator, it could use its influence to rein in Putin.

On the eve of the visit, Putin praised the Chinese proposals, which were tepidly received elsewhere, as “realistic and constructive.” The Russian leader also draws frequent parallels between his contention that Ukraine rightfully belongs to Russia and China’s claim to Taiwan .

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During last week’s European tour, Xi joined France’s President Emmanuel Macron in calling for a “global truce” during the Summer Olympic Games in Paris — one that would theoretically apply in Ukraine, where the tempo of fighting has been intensifying .

Ukrainian military officials acknowledge that for the moment at least, Russia has battlefield momentum on its side , making new territorial seizures in Ukraine’s northeast and notching steady incremental gains on the eastern front lines.

Despite elaborate displays of Sino-Russian friendship, in some parts of the world the two see each other as rivals rather than partners.

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Xi is well aware that Putin’s international isolation leaves him at a disadvantage, and in some venues, such as Eastern Europe, that gives China greater economic latitude.

“The full-scale invasion of Ukraine is accelerating the process of China edging out Russia from Central and Eastern Europe,” wrote analyst Dimitar Bechev of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center after Xi’s visit last week to Hungary and Serbia.

Putin, he wrote, “has become toxic in a way that the Chinese leadership is not.”

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How Biden Adopted Trump’s Trade War With China

The president has proposed new barriers to electric vehicles, steel and other goods..

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Donald Trump upended decades of American policy when he started a trade war with China. Many thought that President Biden would reverse those policies. Instead, he’s stepping them up. Today, my colleague, Jim Tankersley, explains.

It’s Monday, May 13.

Jim, it’s very nice to have you in the studio.

It’s so great to be here, Sabrina. Thank you so much.

So we are going to talk today about something I find very interesting and I know you’ve been following. We’re in the middle of a presidential campaign. You are an economics reporter looking at these two candidates, and you’ve been trying to understand how Trump and Biden are thinking about our number one economic rival, and that is China.

As we know, Trump has been very loud and very clear about his views on China. What about Biden?

Well, no one is going to accuse President Biden of being as loud as former President Trump. But I think he’s actually been fairly clear in a way that might surprise a lot of people about how he sees economic competition with China.

We’re going after China in the wrong way. China is stealing intellectual property. China is conditioning —

And Biden has, kind of surprisingly, sounded a lot, in his own Joe Biden way, like Trump.

They’re not competing. They’re cheating. They’re cheating. And we’ve seen the damage here in America.

He has been very clear that he thinks China is cheating in trade.

The bottom line is I want fair competition with China, not conflict. And we’re in a stronger position to win the economic competition of the 21st century against China or anyone else because we’re investing in America and American workers again. Finally.

And maybe the most surprising thing from a policy perspective is just how much Biden has built on top of the anti-China moves that Trump made and really is the verge of his own sort of trade war with China.

Interesting. So remind us, Jim, what did Trump do when he actually came into office? We, of course, remember Trump really talking about China and banging that drum hard during the campaign, but remind us what he actually did when he came into office.

Yeah, it’s really instructive to start with the campaign, because Trump is talking about China in some very specific ways.

We have a $500 billion deficit, trade deficit, with China. We’re going to turn it around. And we have the cards. Don’t forget —

They’re ripping us off. They’re stealing our jobs.

They’re using our country as a piggy bank to rebuild China, and many other countries are doing the same thing. So we’re losing our good jobs, so many.

The economic context here is the United States has lost a couple of million jobs in what was called the China shock of the early 2000s. And Trump is tapping into that.

But when the Chinese come in, and they want to make great trade deals — and they make the best trade deals, and not anymore. When I’m there, we turn it around, folks. We turn it around. We have —

And what he’s promising as president is that he’s going to bring those jobs back.

I’ll be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. I’ll take them back from China, from Japan.

And not just any jobs, good-paying manufacturing jobs, all of it — clothes, shoes, steel, all of these jobs that have been lost that American workers, particularly in the industrial Midwest, used to do. Trump’s going to bring them back with policy meant to rebalance the trade relationship with China to get a better deal with China.

So he’s saying China is eating our lunch and has been for decades. That’s the reason why factory workers in rural North Carolina don’t have work. It’s those guys. And I’m going to change that.

Right. And he likes to say it’s because our leaders didn’t cut the right deal with them, so I’m going to make a better deal. And to get a better deal, you need leverage. So a year into his presidency, he starts taking steps to amass leverage with China.

And so what does that look like?

Just an hour ago, surrounded by a hand-picked group of steelworkers, President Trump revealed he was not bluffing.

It starts with tariffs. Tariffs are taxes that the government imposes on imports.

Two key global imports into America now face a major new barrier.

Today, I’m defending America’s national security by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum.

And in this case, it’s imports from a lot of different countries, but particularly China.

Let’s take it straight to the White House. The president of the United States announcing new trade tariffs against China. Let’s listen in.

This has been long in the making. You’ve heard —

So Trump starts, in 2018, this series of tariffs that he’s imposing on all sorts of things — washing machines, solar panels, steel, aluminum. I went to Delaware to a lighting store at that time, I remember, where basically everything they sold came from China and was subject to the Trump tariffs, because that’s where lighting was made now.

Interesting.

Hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods now start falling under these Trump tariffs. The Chinese, of course, don’t take this lying down.

China says it is not afraid of a trade war with the US, and it’s fighting back against President Trump with its own tariffs on US goods.

They do their own retaliatory tariffs. Now American exports to China cost more for Chinese consumers. And boom, all of a sudden, we are in the midst of a full-blown trade war between the United States and Beijing.

Right. And that trade war was kind of a shock because for decades, politicians had avoided that kind of policy. It was the consensus of the political class in the United States that there should not be tariffs like that. It should be free trade. And Trump just came in and blew up the consensus.

Yeah. And Sabrina, I may have mentioned this once or 700 times before on this program, but I talk to a lot of economists in my job.

Yeah, it’s weird. I talk to a lot of economists. And in 2018 when this started, there were very, very, very few economists of any political persuasion who thought that imposing all these tariffs were a good idea. Republican economists in particular, this is antithetical to how they think about the world, which is low taxes, free trade. And even Democratic economists who thought they had some problems with the way free trade had been conducted did not think that Trump’s “I’m going to get a better deal” approach was going to work. And so there was a lot of criticism at the time, and a lot of politicians really didn’t like it, a lot of Democrats, many Republicans. And it all added up to just a real, whoa, I don’t think this is going to work.

So that begs the question, did it?

Well, it depends on what you mean by work. Economically, it does not appear to have achieved what Trump wanted. There’s no evidence yet in the best economic research that’s been done on this that enormous amounts of manufacturing jobs came back to the United States because of Trump’s tariffs. There was research, for example, on the tariffs on washing machines. They appear to have helped a couple thousand jobs, manufacturing jobs be created in the United States, but they also raised the price of washing machines for everybody who bought them by enough that each additional job that was created by those tariffs effectively cost consumers, like, $800,000 per job.

There’s like lots of evidence that the sectors Trump was targeting to try to help here, he didn’t. There just wasn’t a lot of employment rebound to the United States. But politically, it really worked. The tariffs were very popular. They had this effect of showing voters in those hollowed-out manufacturing areas that Trump was on their team and that he was fighting for them. Even if they didn’t see the jobs coming back, they felt like he was standing up for them.

So the research suggests this was a savvy political move by Trump. And in the process, it sort of changes the political economic landscape in both parties in the United States.

Right. So Trump made these policies that seemed, for many, many years in the American political system, fringe, isolationist, economically bad, suddenly quite palatable and even desirable to mainstream policymakers.

Yeah. Suddenly getting tough on China is something everyone wants to do across both parties. And so from a political messaging standpoint, being tough on China is now where the mainstream is. But at the same time, there is still big disagreement over whether Trump is getting tough on China in the right way, whether he’s actually being effective at changing the trade relationship with China.

Remember that Trump was imposing these tariffs as a way to get leverage for a better deal with China. Well, he gets a deal of sorts, actually, with the Chinese government, which includes some things about tariffs, and also China agreeing to buy some products from the United States. Trump spins it as this huge win, but nobody else really, including Republicans, acts like Trump has solved the problem that Trump himself has identified. This deal is not enough to make everybody go, well, everything’s great with China now. We can move on to the next thing.

China remains this huge issue. And the question of what is the most effective way to deal with them is still an animating force in politics.

Got it. So politically, huge win, but policy-wise and economically, and fundamentally, the problem of China still very much unresolved.

Absolutely.

So then Biden comes in. What does Biden do? Does he keep the tariffs on?

Biden comes to office, and there remains this real pressure from economists to roll back what they consider to be the ineffective parts of Trump’s trade policy. That includes many of the tariffs. And it’s especially true at a time when almost immediately after Biden takes office, inflation spikes. And so Americans are paying a lot of money for products, and there’s this pressure on Biden, including from inside his administration, to roll back some of the China tariffs to give Americans some relief on prices.

And Biden considers this, but he doesn’t do it. He doesn’t reverse Trump’s tariff policy. In the end, he’s actually building on it.

We’ll be right back.

So Jim, you said that Biden is actually building on Trump’s anti-China policy. What exactly does that look like?

So Biden builds on the Trump China policy in three key ways, but he does it with a really specific goal that I just want you to keep in mind as we talk about all of this, which is that Biden isn’t just trying to beat China on everything. He’s not trying to cut a better deal. Biden is trying to beat China in a specific race to own the clean-energy future.

Clean energy.

Yeah. So keep that in mind, clean energy. And the animating force behind all of the things Biden does with China is that Biden wants to beat China on what he thinks are the jobs of the future, and that’s green technology.

Got it. OK. So what does he do first?

OK. Thing number one — let’s talk about the tariffs. He does not roll them back. And actually, he builds on them. For years, for the most part, he just lets the tariffs be. His administration reviews them. And it’s only now, this week, when his administration is going to actually act on the tariffs. And what they’re going to do is raise some of them. They’re going to raise them on strategic green tech things, like electric vehicles, in order to make them more expensive.

And I think it’s important to know the backdrop here, which is since Biden has taken office, China has started flooding global markets with really low-cost green technologies. Solar panels, electric vehicles are the two really big ones. And Biden’s aides are terrified that those imports are going to wash over the United States and basically wipe out American automakers, solar panel manufacturers, that essentially, if Americans can just buy super-cheap stuff from China, they’re not going to buy it from American factories. Those factories are going to go out of business.

So Biden’s goal of manufacturing jobs in clean energy, China is really threatening that by dumping all these products on the American market.

Exactly. And so what he wants to do is protect those factories with tariffs. And that means increasing the tariffs that Trump put on electric vehicles in hopes that American consumers will find them too expensive to buy.

But doesn’t that go against Biden’s goal of clean energy and things better for the environment? Lots of mass-market electric vehicles into the United States would seem to advance that goal. And here, he’s saying, no, you can’t come in.

Right, because Biden isn’t just trying to reduce emissions at all costs. He wants to reduce emissions while boosting American manufacturing jobs. He doesn’t want China to get a monopoly in these areas. And he’s also, in particular, worried about the politics of lost American manufacturing jobs. So Biden does not want to just let you buy cheaper Chinese technologies, even if that means reducing emissions.

He wants to boost American manufacturing of those things to compete with China, which brings us to our second thing that Biden has done to build on Trump’s China policy, which is that Biden has started to act like the Chinese government in particular areas by showering American manufacturers with subsidies.

I see. So dumping government money into American businesses.

Yes, tax incentives, direct grants. This is a way that China has, in the past decades, built its manufacturing dominance, is with state support for factories. Biden is trying to do that in particular targeted industries, including electric vehicles, solar power, wind power, semiconductors. Biden has passed a bunch of legislation that showers those sectors with incentives and government support in hopes of growing up much faster American industry.

Got it. So basically, Biden is trying to beat China at its own game.

Yeah, he’s essentially using tariffs to build a fortress around American industry so that he can train the troops to fight the clean energy battle with China.

And the troops being American companies.

Yes. It’s like, we’re going to give them protection — protectionist policy — in order to get up to size, get up to strength as an army in this battle for clean energy dominance against the Chinese.

Got it. So he’s trying to build up the fortress. What’s the third thing Biden does? You mentioned three things.

Biden does not want the United States going it alone against China. He’s trying to build an international coalition, wealthy countries and some other emerging countries that are going to take on China and try to stop the Chinese from using their trade playbook to take over all these new emerging industrial markets.

But, Jim, why? What does the US get from bringing our allies into this trade war? Why does the US want that?

Some of this really is about stopping China from gaining access to new markets. It’s like, if you put the low-cost Chinese exports on a boat, and it’s going around the world, looking for a dock to stop and offload the stuff and sell it, Biden wants barriers up at every possible port. And he wants factories in those places that are competing with the Chinese.

And a crucial fact to know here is that the United States and Europe, they are behind China when it comes to clean-energy technology. The Chinese government has invested a lot more than America and Europe in building up its industrial capacity for clean energy. So America and its allies want to deny China dominance of those markets and to build up their own access to them.

And they’re behind, so they’ve got to get going. It’s like they’re in a race, and they’re trailing.

Yeah, it’s an economic race to own these industries, and it’s that global emissions race. They also want to be bringing down fossil-fuel emissions faster than they currently are, and this is their plan.

So I guess, Jim, the question in my mind is, Trump effectively broke the seal, right? He started all of these tariffs. He started this trade war with China. But he did it in this kind of jackhammer, non-targeted way, and it didn’t really work economically. Now Biden is taking it a step further. But the question is, is his effort here going to work?

The answer to whether it’s going to work really depends on what your goals are. And Biden and Trump have very different goals. If Trump wins the White House back, he has made very clear that his goal is to try to rip the United States trade relationship with China even more than he already has. He just wants less trade with China and more stuff of all types made in the United States that used to be made in China. That’s a very difficult goal, but it’s not Biden’s goal.

Biden’s goal is that he wants America to make more stuff in these targeted industries. And there is real skepticism from free-market economists that his industrial policies will work on that, but there’s a lot of enthusiasm for it from a new strain of Democratic economists, in particular, who believe that the only chance Biden has to make that work is by pulling all of these levers, by doing the big subsidies and by putting up the tariffs, that you have to have both the troops training and the wall around them. And if it’s going to work, he has to build on the Trump policies. And so I guess you’re asking, will it work? It may be dependent upon just how far he’s willing to go on the subsidies and the barriers.

There’s a chance of it.

So, Jim, at the highest level, whatever the economic outcome here, it strikes me that these moves by Biden are pretty remarkably different from the policies of the Democratic Party over the decades, really going in the opposite direction. I’m thinking of Bill Clinton and NAFTA in the 1990s. Free trade was the real central mantra of the Democratic Party, really of both parties.

Yeah, and Biden is a real break from Clinton. And Clinton was the one who actually signed the law that really opened up trade with China, and Biden’s a break from that. He’s a break from even President Obama when he was vice president. Biden is doing something different. He’s breaking from that Democratic tradition, and he’s building on what Trump did, but with some throwback elements to it from the Roosevelt administration and the Eisenhower administration. This is this grand American tradition of industrial policy that gave us the space race and the interstate highway system. It’s the idea of using the power of the federal government to build up specific industrial capacities. It was in vogue for a time. It fell out of fashion and was replaced by this idea that the government should get out of the way, and you let the free market drive innovation. And now that industrial policy idea is back in vogue, and Biden is doing it.

So it isn’t just a shift or an evolution. It’s actually a return to big government spending of the ‘30s and the ‘40s and the ‘50s of American industrialism of that era. So what goes around comes around.

Yeah, and it’s a return to that older economic theory with new elements. And it’s in part because of the almost jealousy that American policymakers have of China and the success that it’s had building up its own industrial base. But it also has this political element to it. It’s, in part, animated by the success that Trump had making China an issue with working-class American voters.

You didn’t have to lose your job to China to feel like China was a stand-in for the forces that have taken away good-paying middle-class jobs from American workers who expected those jobs to be there. And so Trump tapped into that. And Biden is trying to tap into that. And the political incentives are pushing every future American president to do more of that. So I think we are going to see even more of this going forward, and that’s why we’re in such an interesting moment right now.

So we’re going to see more fortresses.

More fortresses, more troops, more money.

Jim, thank you.

You’re welcome.

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Donald Trump upended decades of American policy when he started a trade war with China. Many thought that President Biden would reverse those policies. Instead, he’s stepping them up.

Jim Tankersley, who covers economic policy at the White House, explains.

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Jim Tankersley , who covers economic policy at the White House for The New York Times.

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Mr. Biden, competing with Mr. Trump to be tough on China , called for steel tariffs last month.

The Biden administration may raise tariffs on electric vehicles from China to 100 percent .

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