Standing aspect by aspect in a present of partnership unshaken by Russia’s yearlong warfare in Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin and China’s high chief, Xi Jinping, started talks in Moscow on Monday with boasts of their shut ties and solely understated point out of the battle itself.
Although the warfare and the schisms it has uncovered hung over the assembly, the general public feedback about it from Mr. Xi and Mr. Putin have been muted, however the cascading penalties of the previous yr, together with Western…