Putin's China visit fails to snag major project financing

By Denis Dyomkin and Andrew Osborn BEIJING/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China produced a clutch of new deals on Thursday, but failed to secure funding for vital infrastructure projects, underscoring the limits to a relationship Moscow casts as a counterweight to the West. Increasingly isolated because of its actions in Ukraine, the Kremlin has talked up ties with China, where it hopes to access capital denied to it elsewhere at a time when its economy and curren