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Wang Yi, China’s most senior foreign-policy official, said Beijing is willing to work with Moscow to defend both countries’ national territories during talks with Russia’s security chief on Tuesday. Photo: Alexander Shcherbak/TASS/Zuma Press
A series of high-profile events on the international stage—Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to arms control Tuesday, a visit to Moscow by China’s top diplomat and the prospect of a summit between Mr. Putin and China’s Xi Jinping—has laid bare the perilous state of great-power relations. The developments signal greater stress for the international system as Washington and its allies contend with a rising China, which has provided an important economic lifeline to Moscow, and a Russia seeking to renegotiate the end of the Cold War.
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In Ukraine, Russia’s new offensive is struggling under the poor training of recently mobilized soldiers and chronic problems in the command and control structure, according to Western officials, military analysts and Ukrainian commanders. Russia is also increasingly sidelining the owner of the Wagner Group paramilitary force fighting alongside its regular army.
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