China’s President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose with Mongolia’s President throughout their trilateral assembly on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders’ summit in Samarkand on September 15, 2022. China holds the “dominant position” in its relationship with Russia, and Chinese President Xi Jinping is not ready for Russia to “act as it pleases”, stated a political analyst following Xi’s first assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin since the conflict started.
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