CHINA-RUSSIA-POLITICS-DIPLOMACY

    Xi welcomes Putin, touts “unyielding” Russia-China ties and warns “hegemonic countercurrents running rampant”

    Beijing  —China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin met Wednesday in Beijing, just days after President Trump left the Chinese capital. The two major U.S. adversaries sought to underscore their close ties with a host of business deals – and to show a united front against “unilateral and hegemonic countercurrents” amid the ongoing U.S.-Israeli…

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    Russia-China ties expose 'less-fulfilling' US-China relationship, says Kurt Campbell

      Behind the stalled gas pipeline set to dominate Putin-Xi summit

      A Power of Siberia natural gas pipelines facility in Heihe, Heilongjiang province, China, on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Bloomberg | Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday, with the long-stalled Power of Siberia 2 natural gas pipeline on the agenda, as the Iran war disrupts energy…

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