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The murderous Vladimir Putin and Winnie the Pooh-lookalike Xi Jinping toast each other during a reception in March this year (Picture: Pavel Byrkin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

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A woman carries her child past residential buildings in Uman, Ukraine, after they were damaged by Russian missile strikes (Picture: Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)

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Rescuers work in the rubble of a damaged residential building in Uman, south of Kyiv, after Russian missile strikes targeted several Ukrainian cities overnight. - Ukraine and Russia have been fighting since Moscow's February 2022 invasion and Ukraine says it has been preparing for months a counter-offensive aimed at repelling Russian forces from the territory they currently hold in the east and south. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

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China's Xin Jinping told Vladimir Putin last month that, together, they were changing the world in a way not seen for 100 years (Picture: Pavel Byrkin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

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French President Emmanuel Macron was given the red-carpet treatment on his visit to China (Picture: Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)

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Badges depicting a Formosan black bear holding a Taiwanese flag punching Winnie-the-Pooh are being worn by some of Taiwan's air force pilots as a defiant message to Chinese leader Xi Jinping (Picture: Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)

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Badges depicting a Formosan black bear holding a Taiwanese flag punching Winnie-the-Pooh are on display at a shop in Taoyuan, Taiwan. China, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory, launched three days of war games on 8 April that involved simulating attacks on the democratic island in response to President Tsai Ing-wen's meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The iron-on patches being worn by some of Taiwan's air force pilots are a defiant message to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, often satirised for looking like Winnie the Pooh.

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French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping take part in a Franco-Chinese business council meeting in Beijing. Picture: Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday, March 20, 2023. (Shen Hong/Xinhua via AP)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday. Picture: Sergei Karpuhkin/AFP via Getty Images)

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Riot police detain a man as they clear protesters taking part in a rally against a new national security law in Hong Kong on July 1 (Picture: dale de la Rey/AFP via Getty Images)

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Activists of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spray black paint on a poster depicting Chinese President Xi Jinping during a protest in Amritsar after an India-China border clash that left 20 troops dead (Picture: Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images)

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A medical staff member from Peking Union Medical College Hospital, left, tears up as she prepares to leave Wuhan, but was China's government slow to act over the virus? (Picture: STR/AFP via Getty Images)

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