Compared to American President Donald Trumpโs on-again, off-again bromance with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the relationship between the latter and Chinese President Xi Jinping is on a much more even keel.
In recent years, China and Russia have forged a deepening strategic partnership marked by expanding trade, closer military cooperation and shared opposition to United States-led international norms, or what passes for norms in these bewildering, topsy-turvy times.
The relationship…