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The growing bond between Moscow and Beijing

The growing bond between Moscow and Beijing

19 February 2022

9:00 AM

19 February 2022

9:00 AM

Four years ago, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping made pancakes together in Vladivostok while thousands of their military forces conducted joint exercises in Siberia. This month, as China hosted the Olympics, Putin and Xi announced that a ‘new era’ in international relations had begun, one in which the two great authoritarian powers of the 21st century will reshape the liberal international order established in 1945 and reaffirmed in 1991.

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