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On the opening day of the Beijing Winter Olympics, China’s President Xi Jinping received Russia’s Vladimir Putin, announcing a profound strategic alliance to counterbalance what they see as the United States’ malignant global influence. The two countries said in a joint statement that their new connection was superior to any political or military alliance formed during the Cold War. “Friendship between the two States has no limits, there are no ‘forbidden’ areas of cooperation,” they announced, revealing plans to engage in a variety of fields including space, climate change, artificial intelligence, and Internet regulation. The accord was the most explicit and bold expression yet of Russia and China’s determination to work together – and against the US – to create a new international order based on their own conceptions of human rights and democracy. Despite Putin touting a new gas deal…