内容摘要："They do not understand that for a person with such a diagnosis, it's already deadly just to be in prison without his pills," Anna worries. She has begun writing to Russian officials, pleading for Leonid to be included on a prisoner exchange list, on humanitarian grounds.

"They do not understand that for a person with such a diagnosis, it's already deadly just to be in prison without his pills," Anna worries. She has begun writing to Russian officials, pleading for Leonid to be included on a prisoner exchange list, on humanitarian grounds.

It came as a complete surprise to them to be told by a relative they had gone viral on TikTok, with millions of views.Mr Hall, 64, said they "could not believe it" as they did not have a profile on the social media site.

When the couple discovered their fake profile, they found whoever created it had taken pictures of them from Facebook."We were shocked and I was angry," Mr Hall said."I became more angry when I looked into it and whoever it was had taken a picture of me and my wife and used it.

"They had taken 35 of our videos and clipped them down."It took the ukulele players two weeks of reporting the videos to TikTok before they were taken down.

During that time, the fake profile reached 14,000 followers and one video reached 1.2m views.

Mr Hall added: "We went to TikTok and said we were being impersonated.It is now offering visa-free travel to visitors from parts of Europe as well as from Thailand and Australia. And its pandas are once again being dispatched to foreign zoos.

Perceptions matter to China’s ambitious leader, who wants to take on a bigger global role and challenge the US. He certainly does not want to become a pariah or face fresh pressure from the West. At the same time, he is still managing his relationship with Moscow.While he has not condemned the invasion of Ukraine, he has so far failed to provide significant military assistance to Russia. And during the meeting in May, his cautious rhetoric was in contrast to Mr Putin’s florid compliments about Mr Xi.

So far, China has also provided political cover for Mr Kim’s efforts to advance his nuclear arsenal, repeatedly blocking US-led sanctions at the United Nations.But Mr Xi is no fan of an emboldened Kim Jong Un.