As two autocrats traded tributes over a feast of quail, venison, Siberian white salmon and pomegranate sorbet, China and Russia seemed to conjure the anti-Western compact the US has long feared.Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit this week to his friend, President Vladimir Putin, came at a critical moment of Russia's quagmire war in Ukraine and of Beijing's emergence as a great power whose influence now stretches far beyond Asia.
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