Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly reminded the world about Moscow’s nuclear arsenals after sending troops into Ukraine in February 2022 to try to deter the West from ramping up support for Kyiv.

Vladimir Putin landed in China on Tuesday to a warm welcome from his “dear friend” President Xi Jinping, but he arrived with the heavy burden of a war he increasingly seems unable to win.

On the surface, Chinese leader Xi Jinping's back-to-back summits with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin looked pretty similar, with formal handshakes in Beijing's Tiananmen Square,

Trump has called Putin’s moves ‘genius.’ He has also canceled a meeting with the Russian president and accused him of ‘destroying Russia.’

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Xi hosted “longtime friend” Putin in the Great Hall of the People, the site of Xi’s summit with Trump last Thursday. The Russian president departed Beijing on Wednesday even