Marc Champion: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin think they are winning-- and provided the turn of occasions in the Middle East, perhaps they are

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
With hindsight, the last time Vladimir Putin visited Xi Jinping in China, just three weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine, was a moment of
hubris & two supremely confident leaders marking their bid to shake up a world organised by and for the US and its allies
Well, they certainly shook it up, even if not in the way they intended.