Putin and Xi Condemn the U.S.

“Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday pledged to deepen the countries’ already close strategic ties and condemned what they claimed was aggressive behavior from the U.S.,” Axios reports.

“The joint statement from the two leaders is an overt snub to U.S. officials, who traveled to China last month and objected to Beijing’s material and financial support for Russia throughout its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.”