Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has put China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong in a tight spot.
Two years after COVID-19 first emerged in the city of Wuhan, the virus has returned to China with a vengeance. After being spared the lockdowns, deaths and severe illness experienced in many other parts of the world for the past two years, highly infectious new variants have now breached China’s borders
. Xi now faces a stark choice – to back away from supporting his authoritarian compatriot in Moscow or cement the divergence that has been building up between China and the Western world since he came to power 10 years ago. US intelligence leaks this week suggest that Beijing has indicated it is willing to provide military and financial support to Russia’s Ukraine campaign.Those claims, made in key US newspapers before US national security adviser Jake Sullivan’s meeting in Rome on Monday with top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi, added a new dimension to the geopolitical dance going on around the most severe conflict in Europe since World War Two.
On the afternoon of the Games’ opening ceremony, Xi and Putin met in Beijing to formalise an economic and strategic partnership and jointly condemn NATO
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