No one was perplexed, in spite of their possible exorbitant resistance to both the Russian war and the notion that others could not share that sentiment, when soon-re-elected president Putin hosted recently re-elected president Xi, in a show of seeming dalliance expressing alliance.
This is, beneath the skimming surface and known to any student of history or the intricacies of geopolitics, not the case. China and Russia have always been rivals - sometimes outright enemies - and only the stupid choices and stupider and empty blows to both parties by a weakening (well, relatively speaking, at least) Western world, self-consciously at that, has brokered this dalliance. For there was a day when the Chinese president, or General Secretary, could not have been welcomed in the Russian capital, or vice versa.
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