Links to articles discussed on this episode
“China portrays Xi’s Russia trip as bid for leadership of non-Western world” – by Lily Kuo for the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/21/china-xi-russia-world-leadership/
“China waging decades-long spy war” by Calder Walton for Foreign Policy
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/28/china-has-been-waging-a-decades-long-all-out-spy-war/
“Russian defector sheds light on Putin paranoia and his secret train network” by Andrew Roth and Pjotr Sauer for The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/05/russian-defector-sheds-light-on-putin-paranoia-including-secret-train
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