Right on the heels of President Trump's state visit to China last week, Russia's Vladimir Putin stopped in Beijing for a meeting today with his chief ally, Xi Jinping.

As Nick Schifrin tells us, they focused on economic issues and criticizing U.S. foreign policy.

Today in Beijing, fanfare and red carpets for two authoritarian leaders to trumpet their

alliance.

At the Great Hall of the People, the ceremonial center of communist China, Xi Jinping met

his closest ally Russian President Vladimir Putin for a synchronized show of power and celebration

by China's youngest.

It was the exact same spot that Xi welcomed President Trump to six days ago, seemingly identical

in its pomp and circumstance, although apparently not to President Trump.

I think it's good.

I don't know if the ceremony is quite as brilliant as mine.

I watched.

I think we topped them.

But even if the U.S. and China pledged strategic stability, they remain rivals.

And China and Russia are strategically aligned, and today jointly criticized the U.S.

Golden Dome for America.

For President Trump's proposed Golden Dome missile defense, which Russia and China today

called a, quote, obvious threat to strategic stability.

For the expiration of the last U.S.-Russia arms control treaty, new start. And for the U.S.-Israel war on Iran.

The world today is far from peaceful, with unilateralism and hegemonism posing profound dangers.

The world faces the risk of regressing to the law of the jungle.

Russian-Chinese relations have reached a truly unprecedented level.

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