The 'dear' friendship of Xi and Putin... in 62 seconds

Russia's Vladimir Putin has welcomed China's Xi Jinping to Moscow, arsenic portion of a 2 time visit. It's the archetypal since Russia invaded Ukraine successful February 2022.

Appearing successful beforehand of cameras, the leaders called each different "dear friend". However, the narration betwixt the 2 countries has not ever been truthful positive.

BBC Russia exertion Steve Rosenberg and China analogous Stephen McDonnell analyse the analyzable past betwixt the 2 presidents and question what the aboriginal holds for the nations.

Video by James McFadden and Suneil Asar.