Hong Kong CNN  —  Chinese chief Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have made a sweeping affirmation of their alignment across a host of concerns – and shared distrust of the United States – in a lengthy assertion pursuing talks among the two leaders in Moscow this 7 days. Their assembly, which took put underneath the shadow of Russia’s onslaught in Ukraine, still left no dilemma about Beijing’s dedication to creating its rapport with Moscow, in spite of Putin’s expanding isolation on the world stage as its devastating war carries on into its second year. It also failed to move the needle on bringing that conflict to resolution. As…