US and allies are pushing China and Russia closer together, but will their 'unbreakable friendship' last?
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Russia and China couldn't stop boasting about their "unbreakable friendship" ahead of Vladimir Putin's summit with US President Joe Biden this week. Relations between Moscow and Beijing are at an "unprecedentedly high level," Russian leader Putin told NBC in an interview aired Monday, stressing he does not consider China a threat. "China is a friendly nation. It has not declared us an enemy, as the United States has done," he said.President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.