Putin meets Xi in Beijing amid widening gulf with West

It was a show of unity, with talk of peace and cooperation, but the backdrop was a world divided and – in Ukraine and Gaza – engaged in deadly combat.

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The first meeting between Vladimir Putin and China’s president Xi Jinping since Russia’s president was re-elected, effectively unopposed, in March came in a week of huge anti-Russian protests in Georgia and the attempted assassination of Slovakia’s anti-western prime minister.

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