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Introduction
Dennis Wilder, a longtime CIA veteran who served as a director on the China desk under the Bush administration, spent six years under Obama. He says Chinese foreign policy today is not made by the foreign ministry; it is made by Xi Jinping. And if you look at what Xi Jinping has actually said about Putin over recent years, in June of 2019, when he went to Moscow, he called Putin my best friend and colleague. The two leaders have met 39 times since Xi came into office - more meetings than any other world leader.