Shanghai to Sevastopol

President's XI and Putin have locked Eurasia, Swift payments slowing, Australia in the cold, China drives global growth

UPDATE: What has just taken place in Moscow is nothing less than a new Yalta, which, incidentally, is in Crimea. But unlike the momentous meeting of US President Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in USSR-run Crimea in 1945, this is the first time in arguably five centuries that no political lea…