Xi and Putin Announce ‘No Limits’ Partnership Amid Deepening Standoff With West

Xi and Putin Announce ‘No Limits’ Partnership Amid Deepening Standoff With West
Chinese leader Xi Jinping meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing on Feb. 4, 2022. Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images
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China’s leader Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing on the opening day of the Winter Olympics in a show of solidarity amid mounting pressures from the West.

Friday’s meeting also marks Xi’s first in-person meeting with his counterpart for nearly two years. The leader of the Chinese Communist Party hasn’t left the country since the onset of the pandemic in January 2020.

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