What connects China and Russia?

Unlike the West, which imposes sanctions and punishes based on various values, including human rights, Russia and China do not pass judgment on each other’s actions. Repeated allegations of large-scale human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, which China denies, and the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have made some Western countries more wary of relations with the country, but Moscow and Beijing have largely ignored these issues.