Putin Seeking Asian Allies

Don't  know what Xi Jinping, Premier of China, thinks about Putin wooing Kim Jung Un of North Korea, but he's bound to be a bit miffed, especially after Putin went to Vietnam after Korea and played up diplomatic agreements with that country, too. Dictators are paranoid anyway, and there is no love lost between China and Vietnam. In fact, the Vietnam people hate the Chinese for their aggressive business incursions into this southern neighbor. There is an on-going contention about control of some small islands in the South China Sea. BTW, Vietnamese maps have "East Vietnam Sea" for the South China Sea. That's just one of many examples of Vietnam telling China to drop dead.