Putin and Xi – best pals or a friendship of convenience? Experts give their views after leaders meet

Xi Xinping has met Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin, making him the first leader to visit Moscow since the Russian president was charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court. Sky News spoke to a number of experts about what the apparently growing friendship between the world’s largest nation and most populace nation, means for the world. Security and defence analyst Prof Michael Clarke How is Xi and Putin’s relationship? “In a personal sense it is a very good relationship. They obviously like each other and they have met 40 different times since they both took over their countries….