He doesn't appear to be dead as some claims have stated, or near death either. I don't fall for any type of hog wash that Xi believes all people are created equal. Putin either, among a huge number of other elites for that matter. It's all about economic greatest and profits achieved off the backs of laborers, some slave laborers. I understood where he was coming from about the agreements not to expand NATO than after five expansions he'd had enough. The US should pay attention to their own border more so than trying to expand onto someone's else's. The US would react the same way if Russia or China put a base in Mexico.