Posted on 05/17/2024 6:47:19 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A vaunted 'new era' of strategic partnership between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart Xi Jinping may not exactly have been sealed with a kiss, but it did lead to rare hugs between them.
Underscoring the importance of Xi's support for the Kremlin, Putin headed to Beijing earlier this week in what was his first trip abroad since his March re-election and the second in just over six months to China.
Russia, grappling with Western sanctions after its invasion of Ukraine, is increasingly reliant on its booming trade with China, which is challenging US supremacy in areas from quantum computing to espionage and hard military power.
And although President Xi, in keeping with the tenets of China's political culture, is not known for effusive displays of warmth, he gripped Putin tightly by the shoulders and pulled him in for a pair of firm, if awkward, hugs.
Footage from state broadcaster CCTV showing the leaders enjoying the uncharacteristic embrace in the evening air of the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in the Chinese capital as aides and officials fawned and clapped from the sidelines.
The cuddles came following an informal tea and dinner event last night considered to be the key session of Putin's two-day visit to China.
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The communist disruptor trolls always come out on these threads.
finnegan, what is it about Zelensky’s gay agenda that first attracted you to his side?
“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”
Why doesn’t everyone know that?
Nothing.
I’m against Chicoms and communism.
And their allies and axis.
Zelensky has always been pro Chicom. A spineless weasel.
You are on the same side as the communists, you are in fact a propagandist who comes here to pollute this forum with your seminar posts.
You are not Maga or pro-US or pro-Constitution.
You serve the Obama agenda.
finnegan, is every American who wants peace a communist?
I don’t know but I know you are a communist propagandist who pushes communist infiltration and discord in the US in support of the Chicom regime and to harm the United States. You are the modern equivalent of the hippies and yippies, SDS, Weatherman etc…Same dynamics, updated for today. You are like Obama’s mentor Bill Ayres, except you are a foot soldier nobody, a sad sack ass pack mule.
And what are we to make of you, a man who bangs the war drum but refuses to fight himself?
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Im dancing on my lawn, the sacred soil of the USA!
A nice sunny day in SF too. Lovely. I happily exploit your sunshine as well.
And you can do nothing.
They post to him like he's just another normal poster.
Simply amazing.
More seminar crap.
You have re-set responses.
Right out if a playbook. Like an algorithm.
Always non-seauitur.
>>>>the sacred soil of the USA!<<<<
It’s sacred to those who fought and died for this country and their families.
A fact that the Superior Filipino is too stupid and arrogant to understand.
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