The partnership between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia is set to deepen in the coming years, according to National Intelligence Director Avril Haines. “We are seeing them cooperate more and we anticipate that it will strengthen over the coming years,” Haines said during a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on March 10. Haines added that the partnership between China and Russia extended across economic, political, and military spheres. She clarified, however, that the alliance did not achieve the same sort of cooperation upheld by the United States and its allies, which maintain interoperable forces capable of effectively combining resources in wartime. The testimony comes a month after Putin and CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping made a declaration announcing a partnership with “no limits,” and two weeks into Russia’s war on Ukraine. Since the invasion, the Chinese regime has consistently refused to denounce …