
Last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping sat alongside his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to watch Moscow’s Victory Day parade wearing the symbolic St George’s ribbon.
Before that, the two leaders, who have met more than 40 times, signed over 20 bilateral cooperation agreements and pledged that their countries would be “friends of steel”.
There seems ample evidence supporting the oft-touted “no limits” friendship.But a leaked memo, reportedly from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)...