Relationship between china and russia is close as it's been in years. Gaudy abstein says the two countries share an ideological view of the world. They are both thortarians, so there is a gen asense of aligned interests. Some of that is driven by how the west treats both countries,. But a lot of it is organic to their political systems," he adds.
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