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This Week's Historic China-Russia Summit David Reavill

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Russian President Vladimir Putin flew to Beijing this week to meet with Chinese Leader Xi Jinping in what was expected to be a perfunctory meeting between the two leaders of the Global South. Most analysts did not expect this meeting to be much more than part of the newly re-elected Putin's world tour, a perfunctory greeting to Russia's most important ally.
We were wrong!

Russian President Vladimir Putin flew to Beijing this week to meet with Chinese Leader Xi Jinping in what was expected to be a perfunctory meeting between the two leaders of the Global South. Most analysts did not expect this meeting to be much more than part of the newly re-elected Putin's world tour, a perfunctory greeting to Russia's most important ally.
We were wrong!

8 min