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Russian President Vladimir Putin recently weighed in on the growing tensions between China and Taiwan. On Wednesday, Putin attended the Russian Energy Week in Moscow, where he was asked to react to Chinese President Xi Jinping's previous statement of engaging in a peaceful unification between China and Taiwan. Putin said that his fellow president's statement suggests that there is no threat of military confrontation. "I think China does not need to use force. China is a huge powerful economy, and in terms of purchasing parity, China is the economy number one in the world ahead of the United States now....
