when they met, they came up with this agreement, didn t they, with the term no limits. that no limits is a ringing phrase, isn t it? that is a ringing phrase. i think it pays when president xi says these things, he means them. and we ought to listen hard. so i think that relationship is very clear. the chinese are helping the russians of ukraine by buying oil. they are on the front foot beating the russian drum and selling the russian narrative around ukraine. and doing it without any sense of irony. this is a country that spends a lot of time banging on about sovereignty and territorial integrity. here is the most egregious example of someone tearing it up in europe. and chinese keep on selling selling their snake oil around the world. so yeah, it feels pretty tight, but it s not an equal partnership. and ukraine has made it less
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