"We are now helping our Chinese partners to create a missile-warning system, a missile-attack warning system," Putin announced. 

While slamming the recent US exit from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) as harming global stability, he added, "This is a very serious thing that will dramatically increase China's defense capability, because only the U.S. and Russia have such a system now."

Immediately after his comments, which further come on the heels China's elaborate military hardware-laden 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Foreign Policy noted what's become increasingly apparent as both Beijing and Moscow find themselves in the US administration's cross hairs — with the latter grappling with the uncertain effects of Trump's trade war, and the former under various sanctions: