russia-china relations
China’s President Xi Jinping visited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this week for what would be the 39th meeting between the two leaders.
Russia was the first country that Xi Jinping visited after ascending to the presidency. Subsequently, he has visited Russia on eight occasions.
Unsurprisingly, the highly publicised visit set tongues wagging. That the visit came in the same week when Putin was slapped with an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for allegedly kidnapping children and Ukrainian citizens, paints a stark contrast to the narrative that the
