‘Strategic partner’ Putin hailed in Beijing, but not all is well with anti-U.S. ‘alliance’
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Given Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s announcement earlier this month that the Pentagon is set to station some 60 percent of its naval capacity in the Asia-Pacific theater, the Chinese leadership has good reasons to play up the significance of the visit of newly re-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]