🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin Aide Nikolai Patrushev:
"We taught China how to do everything. We taught them. We shouldn't think that they will teach us something new."
Back in the '50s, Stalin and Khrushchev sent thousands of engineers, scientists, and military advisors to help jumpstart China's industry and defense.
So, he's not wrong. But hardliners in Russia seem to be having a hard time accepting their more junior role, relative to Beijing.
Is that really even debatable at this point?
Writer: Michael