Putin in Bejing: partner or supplicant?

Xi and Putin are working to create a new form of globalisation independent of the US, writes Kirill Babayev, director of the Institute of China and Modern Asia, in Kommersant:

“This world must be built, piece by piece, undeterred by threats on the social media platform Truth Social – through a new international payment infrastructure, new mechanisms for trade regulation and a new form of globalisation. … This is precisely the kind of world the countries of the global majority need today, and we can be sure that in the coming days Putin and Xi will be discussing exactly how to shape this new world – be it through the Eurasian Partnership strategy, the Brics or the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation).”