president and the prime minister. we have to ask how deep the relationship go, russia is cautious of the power balance, it doesn't want to be this kind of oil exporter to china, and the ambulance of power is very much tipped in china's favour. if they have got things like similar ideas about authoritarianism and how to run their countries, i don't think putin can count on xi to share his world view. you can see that in the way that china responded to things like the annexation of crimea, they abstained on the un general assembly vote and also, its role in the conflict in ukraine and they have been cautious, used the kremlin language and not calling it a war. they recognised that the war benefits nobody and for china it scuppered a lot their economic plans which included ukraine, and then obviously there is i suppose the domestic problems which is a a lot of the russian media in the far east, in border regions close to