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By Ben Aris in Berlin Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was pressing the flesh and having his picture taken with the leaders of Southeast Asia at the annual ASEAN summit as the Kremlin seeks to bolster friendly relations with the leading Asian countries as the meeting wrapped up on July 26. China was there, as the two members of a “no-limits’ partnership are working hard to galvanise the countries of the Global South into a non-aligned alliance that can challenge the West, both politically and economically. Lavrov held a debriefing meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, who met wit…

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