WASHINGTON — As Xi Jinping, China’s chief, meets with President Vladimir V. Putin in Moscow this week, Chinese language officers have been framing his journey as a mission of peace, one the place he’ll search to “play a constructive function in selling talks” between Russia and Ukraine, as a authorities spokesman in Beijing put it.
However American and European officers are expecting one thing else altogether — whether or not Mr. Xi will add gasoline to the full-scale struggle that Mr. Putin started greater than a yr…
