Donald Trump may upset the delicate bromance between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin

It would be hard to find two men on the international stage who are right now more willing to regularly advertise their bromance than China’s leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The pair announced a “no-limits” partnership between their two countries days before Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. There have been many opportunities for Xi to walk back support for his best mate’s imperialistic ambitions in the intervening three years, but each meeting and phone call they’ve had since has been a further reinforcement of their close friendship. So the recent thawing of relations…