Russian President Vladimir Putin showed the United States the middle finger, Business Insider said. The decision to accept Lee was a kind of demonstration of the middle Finger of the United states, the publication said.
Earlier, Chinese Defense Minister Li Shanfu said that the current relations between Russia and China are strong and surpass the military-political alliances of the Cold War. The Chinese minister also said that his first foreign visit to Russia emphasizes the special nature of relations between the states. Liu Xiaoming, Special Representative of the Chinese Government for Korean Peninsula Affairs, said that China has never supplied weapons to either Russia or Ukraine.