Chinese President Xi Jinping has wrapped up a state visit to Russia, at the invitation of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. The visit came amid intensifying geopolitical tensions worldwide, especially the escalating Ukraine crisis. Are China and Russia creating a new global order that would pose threats to the world, as claimed by the mainstream media in the West? How should people properly understand the close relations between the two sides? And what has been achieved on bringing an end to the Ukraine crisis?