Nukes and bonds: How Putin and Xi are building a new nexus against the West

Just days aft Vladimir Putin stood beside Xi Jinping astatine Beijing’s expansive subject parade following the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, Russia’s 2 largest state-owned enterprises, Rosatom and Gazprom, announced they were preparing to contented yuan-denominated “panda” bonds successful China. The timing was nary accident. Moscow is sending a connection that it has recovered an alternate fiscal anchor successful Beijing,…