kremlin. in a recent phone call with u.s. secretary of state antony blinken, chinese foreign minister stressed that russia s reasonable security concerns should be taken seriously and resolved. this will be the 38th time that president xi and president putin have met face to face since president xi took power here back in 2013. these frequent interactions, a sign of increasingly close bilateral ties, despite how different the two leaders are. the images tell it all. the pair in 2018 happily sampling together a traditional chinese pancake. a few months later they made a russian version of the dish, complete with caviar and vodka. they visited with china s iconic pandas the following here and took in an ice hockey game. later, basking in a sunset boat tour. the cozy china/russia relationship not stopping the u.s. from trying to sway china on the ukraine crisis. we are calling on beijing to