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Video: Xi and Putin pledge closer ties, condemn U.S. [Video]

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned what they cast as increasingly aggressive U.S. behavior on May 16 and pledged to deepen their countries’ already close defense and military ties. Putin’s two-day visit to Beijing comes as the war in Ukraine, where Russian forces are advancing on several fronts, rumbles on.

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How the West’s plan to punish Russian oil backfired | About That [Video]

After Russia invaded Ukraine, the West took aim at Russia’s oil sector to hamper Russia’s wartime economy. Andrew Chang explains how Western leaders used oil price caps and shipping embargoes to disrupt a critical source of revenue and the workarounds Russian President Vladimir Putin found to keep the oil money flowing.

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Xi welcomes Putin to China with full military honours in Beijing | News [Video]

Vladimir Putin was welcomed to China by its leader Xi Jinping in a ceremony on Thursday, 16 May, as he began his first foreign trip since being re-elected. The Russian president was greeted with full military honours at Beijings Great Hall of the People, the massive seat of the ceremonial legislature close to Tiananmen Square. Xi congratulated Putin on his fifth term in offfice. The election was widely dismissed as a sham for offering Russians no real option for political change. Putin, like Xi, has not laid out any plans for any potential successors.