Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk during their meeting in Beijing on Feb. 4, 2022.

FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk during their meeting in Beijing, China, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. With Russia’s military failings in Ukraine mounting, no country is paying closer attention than China to how a smaller, outgunned force has badly bloodied what was thought to be one of the world’s strongest armies. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Xi Jinping now holds the better cards in steering the Moscow-Beijing relationship.

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