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China and Russia “doubled down” on their strengthening alliance at a meeting this week between Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, say Austin Ramzy and Ann Simmons in The Wall Street Journal. They pledged their “shared opposition” to what they describe as the US’s attempts to “dominate