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Chinese and Russian leaders call on west to abandon cold war' approach at pre-Olympic meeting

China's Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin of Russia have signed a joint statement calling on the west to abandon the ideologised approaches of the cold war", as the two leaders showcased their warming relationship in Beijing at the start of the Winter Olympics.

The politicans also said the bonds between the two countries had no limits". [T]here are no forbidden' areas of cooperation'," they declared.