Big Hearts Versus Big Men
Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said Vladimir Putin's most recent nuclear posturing suggested the Kremlin didn't get all it wanted from Xi Jinping's state visit last week.
Conspicuously absent from more than a dozen "agreements" signed in Moscow this month was a deal on the so-called "Power of Siberia 2" natural gas pipeline.
Nowhere is the power asymmetry between Xi and Putin more apparent than in the latter's almost desperate attempts to finalize arrangements for the Nordstream-esque project
I wonder if Xi has his eye on getting back Outer Manchuria (~1 million square kilometers) and its associated resources that Russia took from China in the mid-1800s…