“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.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.