{"id":355,"date":"2025-06-18T22:39:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:47:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:47:52","slug":"putin-reveals-granddaughter-speaks-fluent-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/putin-reveals-granddaughter-speaks-fluent-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin reveals granddaughter speaks fluent Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Russian president has touted the growing cultural exchanges between the two nations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"197\"><strong data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"147\"><\/strong>Interest in Chinese is growing in Russia, President Vladimir Putin told journalists on the sidelines of the\u00a0St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, revealing that his own granddaughter speaks the language fluently.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"542\" data-end=\"885\">During a late-night Q&amp;A session with the heads of international news agencies, the president of Xinhua News Agency, Fu Hua, asked Putin about the deepening cultural exchanges between China and Russia \u2013 and the Russian leader\u2019s remark last year that his <em>\u201cfamily members are interested in China, and some of them are learning Chinese.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"887\" data-end=\"1080\"><em>\u201cWhen I mentioned that some of my close relatives are studying Chinese, I was referring to my granddaughter, who has a teacher from Beijing and speaks fluently with her in Chinese,\u201d<\/em> Putin said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"RT\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6852c04685f54061b47f1333.png\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/619598-spief-2025-kicks-off-russia\/\">Putin to address SPIEF 2025 guests at key plenary session: Live Updates<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1082\" data-end=\"1229\"><em>\u201cMy daughter, back in the early 2000s, started proactively learning Chinese \u2013 just because she wanted to. She hired a teacher and studied.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1231\" data-end=\"1522\">The Russian president went on to say that over 50,000 Chinese students are studying in Russia, and more than 21,000 Russian students are studying in China. He added that universities in both nations enjoy direct contact, further reinforcing ties and <em>\u201ccontacts in all fields\u201d<\/em> between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian president has touted the growing cultural exchanges between the two nations Interest in Chinese is growing in Russia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}