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Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, your one-stop shop for all things politics, foreign and domestic, left and right, deadly serious and often not. It is brought to you by our absolutely fabulous politics team here at Puck, Tara Palmeri, Tina Nguyen, Peter Hamby, and myself.
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Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, your one-stop shop for all things politics, foreign and domestic, left and right, deadly serious and often not. It is brought to you by our absolutely fabulous politics team here at Puck, Tara Palmeri, Tina Nguyen, Peter Hamby, and myself.

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An ecstatic reception for the Chinese premier in Moscow revealed the dearth of diplomatic and military options before Russia, and just how few friends Vladimir Putin has left.
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When Chinese premier Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow, on Monday, for his first overseas trip after securing his third term as leader of the Communist Party and of China, you may have been forgiven for thinking it was Jesus Christ himself who had returned. Traffic in the Russian capital was snarled to a standstill. State television was breathless in its wall-to-wall coverage of the Chinese leader’s three-day visit. The menu for the first night’s dinner, showcasing traditional Russian cuisine, thank you very much, featured venison and blinys with quail, and finished with Russian ice cream, apparently Xi’s favorite. We know this because, as a beaming news anchor explained...
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