The often dour Vladimir Putin is looking very cheery in China, which has just hosted the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Tianjin to the north, and is preparing for a grand parade to commemorate the 80 th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Beijing tomorrow.

Xi Jinping is clearly the man of the hour, Vladimir Putin seems to be having a good trip, too

While Xi Jinping is clearly the man of the hour, Vladimir Putin seems to be having a good trip, too. Even as his Alaska summit saw him getting the literal red carpet treatment from Donald Trump, this is a chance to underline the degree to which Western efforts to isolate him really just mean that most European leaders are giving him hard stares. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, whose country cont

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