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Instead of focusing on a solution to the war in Ukraine, the Chinese leader’s visit to Moscow reinforced China and Russia’s shared opposition to American dominance.

Also, China and Russia grow closer and the U.S. waits for news of a possible Donald Trump indictment.

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Kyiv remains keen not to anger Beijing given its influence over Moscow, and Zelenskiy is open to a meeting
Hours after Xi Jinping wrapped up , where he extolled Beijing’s “positive role” in Vladimir Putin’s invasion, Russia sent a swarm of drones to Ukraine that killed seven people in a town south of Kyiv.
Commenting on the attack, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, wrote: “Every time someone tries to hear the word ‘peace’ in Moscow, another order is given there for such criminal strikes.”

China’s leader knows full well his country cannot pay the price – economic or political – of openly challenging the west
The three-day visit of Xi Jinping to Russia was packed with action: a , photo ops and ceremonial signings. Pomp and circumstance aside, Xi’s visit to Russia did not live up to Putin’s hopes and expectations. As it turns out, the obvious similarities between the two leaders – their autocratic hold on power and their tenuous relationship with the west – do not directly translate into common interests and goals. Xi came and went, making and leaving Putin and his cronies agape with disappointment.
Russian hopes for this visit could not have been any higher. Russia looks to China, the only major power that has not condemned the invasion of Ukraine, as its economic bondsman, a potential weapons supplier and a “peace” advocate. From the first days of the invasion, Russian intellectuals and have prominently featured China as a key player that would help Russia win the war. China would jump in to substitute the lost western exports, provide Russia with much needed military , and help negotiate peace on Russia’s terms. What was always missing from these accounts, however, is China’s motivation.

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Allene Jue used to vote in a simple, rapid manner -- scan the names on the ballot and pick the Asian sounding names.

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That was before 2020. “Something turned on during the pandemic and lit a fire,” said Jue, a Chinese American mother of two girls, ages 3 and 5, living on the west side of San Francisco.

On the second day of the Chinese leader’s state visit in Moscow, Xi Jinping and Vladimir V. Putin declared an enduring economic partnership, in an effort to insulate their countries from punitive Western measures.