Putin and Xi praise 'no limits friendship' during Chinese president's trip to Russia
It was not meant to turn out this way for Xi Jinping. We still have no idea how much warning Vladimir Putin gave him about his ill-fated invasion of Ukraine, but once under way the Chinese leader would have been hoping for a quick and decisive outcome in Russia's favour.
That would have boded well for Mr Xi's own plans for acquiring or reacquiring, in his mind, a chunk of neighbouring territory of his own, Taiwan.
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