'Xi knows he holds more cards on the leverage front over Moscow than ever before'// foreigncorr1
A FRIENDSHIP with “no limits”. These were the words of Russian president Vladimir Putin back in February this year when he shook hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the opening of the Beijing Olympics shortly before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
As always words matter immensely in such encounters and Putin’s admission that he understood that Xi had “questions and concerns” about Russia’s war in Ukraine along with his praise for China’s “balanced” position on the war only deepened the intrigue surrounding current relations between the two countries.
Writing recently in Foreign Affairs magazine Alexander Gabuev, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace summed up the thinking of many analysts’ response to the meeting between Putin and Xi. Even the timing of the meeting played out against Putin and in Xi’s favour. For Putin it came as the Russian leader is under tremendous domestic political pressure with battlefield setbacks in Ukraine and uncertainty over Russia’s ultimate objectives there.
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