U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticized Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping's alliance and dubbed it a marriage of convenience. What Happened: Blinken, at the end of Xi's state visit to Russia, said, In part because of their very different worldview than we do, they have a marriage of convenience, reported Aljazeera.
Blinken told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee that it wasn't sure if it's conviction.
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Blinken said that they have not seen them cross that line as we speak today.
He said that although Xi hoped to replace the Washington-led international order with his country's own illiberal vision, Putin's Russia did not seem to have a coherent ideology apart from world disorder. The comments came after the Chinese leader told Putin in a video that there are changes the like we haven't seen for 100 years and that they are driving these changes together. The former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to criticize the U.S. for the Putin-Xi alliance. Trump said that President Xi's statement to President Putin, caught on the hot mic, was maybe a low point in history for the USA! Read next: DeSantis Says Not Trump But Biden Is His Real Competition: He's Failed The Country