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Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Beijing in early February, shortly before the opening of the Olympic Games.
(Photo: Alexei Druzhinin/AP)
Friendship with Moscow, business with Europe: In the Ukraine war, China’s course is reaching its limits. But ruler Xi seems to have long since taken sides.
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Kai Strittmatter, Vilnius
The two strong men of China and Russia hand in hand, shortly before the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing: When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met in China’s capital exactly a month ago, the pictures went around the world. And they carried a message, which Xi Jinping summed up in these words: The Russo-Chinese friendship, Xi said, “knows no borders.”
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