By PR Newswire BEIJING, Dec. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The close ties between China and Russia are becoming even stronger as the two countries jointly brave through unprecedented global challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.   The strengthening of bonds can be observed by the Wednesday’s virtual meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, where the two leaders called the relations “a paradigm of international relations in the 21st century” and vowed to further enhance them in an all-round manner. ‘A model of cooperation in 21st centu…