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The discordant messages of China’s president, Xi Jinping, and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia suggested that despite an earlier pledge of “friendship,” Moscow does not have an unconditional ally in Beijing.

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are set to meet later this week. Russia’s battlefield losses and China’s slowdown could complicate their relationship.

With lack of food, medicine and other crucial supplies, residents of Yining are chafing under a monthlong pandemic shutdown.

The two sides, after 16 rounds of talks, made an announcement a week before their leaders will meet in Uzbekistan.

Because of Xi Jinping’s unrelenting policy, the Chinese people put up with a precarious existence filled with lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing.