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Reacting to pictures of world leaders visiting President Xi Jinping in China from earlier this week where a huge military parade took place, he urged "scepticism" against arguments that a new non-Nato "axis" was forming.

It comes amid growing concern about the increasing collaboration of the “axis of upheaval,” a term that denotes China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea and their opposition to the U.S.-led world order.

Xi is expected to have both Kim and Putin by his side which will inevitably lead to western headlines or analysts describing them as the "axis of upheaval".

Erika's family life has spun on its axis in a matter of months, and her mother has struggled with depression.

But in the U.S., consent of the governed has not been necessary to continue the axis of genocide.