Can Xi and Putin cheat death before the rest of the world?

Article by Gavin Haynes, published in UnHerd

When world leaders are caught on a hot mic, often what turns up are the banal intimacies of power. George W. Bush greeting the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, with ‘Yo, Blair’ certainly put the Special Relationship in a certain light.

But the mic that caught Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at their Beijing summit offered a far clearer view of power. “In the past, it used to be rare for someone to be older than 70 and these days they say that at 70 one’s still a child,” Xi’s Russian translator explained, on behalf of the Chinese premier.

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