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Philipp Ivanov
Philipp Ivanov
Philipp Ivanov is senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. He is the founder of the China-Russia Programme at the Asia Society and is also currently chief programming officer at the Asia Society in New York.

Both leaders will be emboldened by a divided and distracted West but they will also have to wrestle with economic vulnerabilities. Xi will watch closely Russia’s progress in Ukraine and its overtures to North Korea, while Putin will be nervous about losing any Chinese support.

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