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Xi-Putin relations
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![China Keeps West Guessing About Economic Pressure on Russia China Keeps West Guessing About Economic Pressure on Russia](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-09-14-085952.jpg)
China Keeps West Guessing About Economic Pressure on Russia
By Joe McDonald
Beijing has avoided violating sanctions, but its purchases of Russian oil and gas rose almost 60 percent in August over a year ago.
![From China With Love: Xi’s Birthday Call to Putin From China With Love: Xi’s Birthday Call to Putin](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2021-06-29-8.jpg)
From China With Love: Xi’s Birthday Call to Putin
By Hemant Adlakha
The latest Putin-Xi exchange should put to bed any speculation that Beijing is reevaluating its close ties to Moscow.
![Xi Jinping Suffers From the Putin Effect Xi Jinping Suffers From the Putin Effect](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-09-22-13.jpg)
Xi Jinping Suffers From the Putin Effect
By Bonnie Girard
Xi has tied himself personally to Russia’s leader through public declarations of friendship. Now Xi shares the reputational damage of the brutalities Russia is unleashing on Ukraine.
![Can China and Russia Cash in on Their 'Best Period' of Relations? Can China and Russia Cash in on Their 'Best Period' of Relations?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-xi-puing.jpg)
Can China and Russia Cash in on Their 'Best Period' of Relations?
By Shannon Tiezzi
Despite strategic convergence, and a public bromance between Putin and Xi, China-Russia economic relations remain underdeveloped.
![Why China 'Respects' Putin’s Bid for the Russian Presidency Why China 'Respects' Putin’s Bid for the Russian Presidency](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-vladimir_putin_and_xi_jinping_brics_summit_2015_01.jpg)
Why China 'Respects' Putin’s Bid for the Russian Presidency
By Charlotte Gao
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he will run again for president in 2018 after a third presidential term.
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