Is Vladimir Putin desperate enough to let China’s Xi Jinping get his way over Ukraine war?
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping
Timothy Ash© Independent.co.uk
Outwardly the summit in Moscow between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping is an attempt to send a strong signal to the West that the “partnership without limits” agreement – signed between the two men at the Beijing Winter Olympics on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 – is still just that.
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