Russia and China look to deepen security ties

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Yellen’s difficult talks America casts China as its biggest competitor and Russia as its biggest nation-state threat, while US President Joe Biden has argued that this century would be defined by an existential contest between democracies and autocracies. Mr Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping share a broad world view, which sees the West as decadent and in decline just as Beijing challenges US supremacy in everything from quantum computing and synthetic biology to espionage and hard military power. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Monday she had difficult conversations with China during her visit about Beijing’s co-operation with...