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Come to that. you can give us a state of what the relationship is between he and vladimir putin. there's a plan summit and xi soon. are they still pretty close? >> they are pretty close. and the closeness doesn't really matter. it's really crude pragmatism on both sides. there's no love lost between russia and china. it's beneficial and increasingly asymmetrical. that was true before the war. now it's symmetry, steroids and favors china. china is ultimately the senior partner in this relationship and vladimir putin is ready to accept this because he's blindly obsessed with this war. war in ukr...