Chinese President Xi Jinping has been secretly worried in recent months that his country’s global influence as one of the

China has made it pretty clear this week that US President Donald Trump can do whatever he wants with Russia, but he’s not breaking up the Xi Jinping-Vladimir Putin bromance. In a call on Monday, Xi told Putin their relationship isn’t changing,

"A very good friend of mine" was how US President Donald Trump described Chinese President Xi Jinping during his election campaign last year. Then, in the days after taking office in January, Trump said he "always liked" Xi,

In seeking accord with U.S., Beijing wants to avoid becoming isolated like the Soviet Union during the Cold War.