Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at who has leverage in the China-Russia relationship, India courting the Nordic region, and Ebola’s rising death toll in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
An Unbalanced Partnership
Just days after Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted U.S. President Donald Trump, Beijing welcomed another world leader. Russian President Vladimir Putin—long dubbed an “old friend” of Xi’s—arrived in China late Tuesday for a two-day summit coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship. The trip, Putin’s 25th visit to China as president, aims to reaffirm the two sides’ “core interests” amid a fractured geopolitical climate.
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at who has leverage in the China-Russia relationship, India courting the Nordic region, and Ebola’s rising death toll in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
An Unbalanced Partnership
