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To be a fly on the call

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On Friday, Xi Jinping called up Russian President Vladimir Putin.

No points for guessing what the two discussed.

According to a Chinese Foreign Ministry readout, Putin began by claiming that NATO expansion and Washington’s failure to heed Russia’s security concerns had forced Moscow to defend its ...