'The Chinese are signaling that they do not want the Russians to lose...they are totally capable of making sure that the Russians don't,' ex-CIA analyst said.
ahead of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing served to showcase the unprecedented"comprehensive strategic partnership for a new era" between the two men and their nations.
"The Chinese top leader is likely to use this trip to have a better grasp of his Russian counterpart's true intention about the crisis at this stage," Zhang Xin, an associate professor at the East China Normal University in Shanghai, told,"and based on such an updated perception, may try to use China's and his personal leverage to help frame the course of the crisis in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a signing ceremony following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 21. The two men signed a number of agreements expanding cooperation in a variety of fields, including trade, industry and military affairs.George Beebe, a decades-long veteran of Russia analysis in U.S.
Beebe also saw China holding leverage on Russia to ensure Beijing's overtures were not repelled by the Kremlin.
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