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Russian President Putin is already on his way back home after meeting with Xi on Wednesday. It appears he did not get the deal he has most coveted, the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline. The two sides did sign twenty cooperation documents and issue the “Joint Statement of the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation on Advocating Global Multipolarity and a New Type of International Relations” (translation) and the “Joint Statement of the PRC and the Russian Federation on Further Strengthening Comprehensive Strategic Coordination and Deepening Good-Neighborly and Friendly Cooperation” (translation).