In August, the two countries pledged to strengthen security ties and improve cross-border cooperation.
Lukashenko is believed to be seeking to improve cooperation between Minsk and Beijing in various fields, including pharmaceuticals, mechanical engineering and defense industries.
According to the Anti-Disinformation Center, A. Lukashenko is believed to want to reduce Belarus’s dependence on Russia and strengthen its position in relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This will be the third visit by the Belarusian authoritarian president to China in the past three years.
A. Lukashenko, who has ruled the country for more than 30 years, is seeking a seventh term after a sustained crackdown on the opposition and free media.
The election comes five and a half years after the 2020 elections, which sparked mass protests across the country and led to a crackdown on dissent that continues to this day.
During the crackdown, some 65,000 people were arrested. people, key opposition figures were imprisoned or fled the country.
