Insider: Under Secret Xi-Putin Pact, Thousands of Chinese Embedded Within North Korean Units in Ukraine

At the heart of the Putin–Xi agreement is the ambition for China and Russia to join forces to replace the United States as global leader.

Soldiers participate in a military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice in Pyongyang, North Korea, on July 27, 2023. KCNA via Reuters

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly reached a secret agreement where China pledged to support Russia ahead of its invasion of Ukraine, according to a prominent Chinese dissident citing insider information. As part of that covert arrangement, Beijing is said to have sent nearly 3,000 troops, embedded within North Korean units, to assist Russian forces on the ground.

The dissident, Yuan Hongbing, a former law professor at Peking University now living in exile in Australia, told The Epoch Times that he received the classified information from an insider whose father is a senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official ousted during Xi’s political purge.