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Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping toast each other following talks at the Kremlin in March 2023 (Picture: Pavel Byrkin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

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A vendor stands next to traditional Russian wooden nesting dolls, Matryoshka dolls, depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin (From L) and his predecessor - Dmitry Medvedev, Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev and Leonid Brezhnev at a gift shop in Moscow this week.

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Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin toast each other during a reception in Moscow in March (Picture: Pavel Byrkin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

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British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, left, and Chinese Vice President Han Zheng attend a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

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US President Joe Biden (left) spoke on China's President Xi Jinping (right) a day after talks between the two superpowers in Beijing. Picture: Mandel Ngan, Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images

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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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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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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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A staff member wearing a protective mask and suit works at a supermarket in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak of a novel coronavirus, in China's central Hubei province. - The death toll from the novel coronavirus surged past 900 in mainland China on February 10, overtaking global fatalities in the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, even as the World Health Organization said the outbreak appeared to be stabilising. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

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Workers in protective suits hand out meals to patients at a hotel being used for people held in medical isolation in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Picture: Chinatopix via AP

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Travel restrictions to some countries have been imposed on non-citizens from China as the death toll from the virus continues to climb. Picture: Getty Images

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Chinese players (L-R) Zhang Linpeng (#5), Wu Xi, Yang Xu and Chi Zhongguo celebrate a goal during the World Cup 2022 qualifier football match between China and Guam in Guangzhou on October 10, 2019. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

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Protesters hold placards and British flags during a peaceful demonstration outside the British Consulate in Hong Kong. Picture: AP Photo/Vincent Yu

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China's President Xi Jinping attends a meeting with North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho. Picture: Fred Dufour/Pool Photo via AP

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Xi Jinping is disappointed at Yang Guangs failure to sire a cub. Picture: Getty

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China's President Xi Jinping applauds after a vote on an amendment to the constitution during a session of the National People's Congress. Picture: Kevin Frayer/Getty

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North Korea's Hwasong intercontinental ballistic missile is lauched at an undisclosed location. Picture: AFP/KCNA VIS KNS.

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The Chinese flag is raised during a military parade at the Zhurihe training base in China's northern Inner Mongolia region. Picture: China OUTSTR/AFP/Getty Images

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U.S. soldiers gather at the U.S.-South Korea joint Exercise Operation Pacific Reach in Pohang, South Korea. North Korea is vowing tough counteraction to any further military moves. Picture: AP

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