China's Xi hosts Putin and Modi at regional summit

overseas where Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese leader Xihinping as well as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a summit in China yesterday. As the New York Times reports, it was a scene almost certainly intended for an audience on the other side of the world. The leaders of China, Russia, and India, the three largest powers not aligned with the West, smiling and laughing like good friends as they greeted each other.Analysts told the paper the friendliness between Mr. . Shei and Mr. . Pu ...