Commentary China’s top jet-setting-diplomat-who-flies-beneath-the-radar, Yang Jiechi, arrived in Moscow on Monday to talk security with the Kremlin. The Financial Times calls this “the latest sign of deepening ties between Beijing and Moscow.” But I call it baloney. After 116,000 Russian COVID-19 deaths and counting, Putin should be seething beneath that thin smile. Add to that his legendary attempts to return Russia to the “greatness” of the Soviet days, in which China was a supplicant to Moscow’s power, and diplomatic errand-boy to Russian premiers at the U.N. Since the Soviet breakup in 1991, Moscow has had its own 30 years of humiliation, not least at the hands of Beijing. Russia is desperate for foreign cash after being shut in by Western economic sanctions imposed after its 2014 invasion of Ukraine’s Crimea and Donbass regions. Things just haven’t been the same for Russia since, with economic circumstances forcing Moscow into China’s arms …