China's Xi Redraws Geopolitical Map With Embrace of Putin, Modi

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

(Bloomberg) -- President Xi Jinping used a mix of bonhomie and economic allure this week to send Donald Trump a clear message: Beijing has too much global clout to be dictated by the US.

Cameras captured the Chinese leader in a rare, unscripted huddle on Monday with Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi — his most powerful partners in resisting America on the world stage — at a summit in the Chinese port city of Tianjin. At one point, Xi held the hand of his Indian counterpart, as the three men laughed casually, a striking scene given just months earlier New Delhi and Beijing were seen as rivals.

The images were a victory for Xi’s decade-long political project to build an alternative to the US-led world order. Hours after the trio gathered at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization event, Beijing signed a major gas pipeline deal with Moscow — rebuking Trump’s efforts to use tariffs to prise India and China away from Russian energy purchases.

“China has developed and sequenced its messages perfectly, and the optics of Xi, Putin and Modi embracing each other are coming sharply into view,” said Josef Gregory Mahoney, a professor of international relations at Shanghai’s East China Normal University. “This week will be

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-xi-redraws-geopolitical-map-110000416.html

Donny Dipshit is too stupid to realize he's ceding power to China.