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Xi Jinping holds talks with Vladimir Putin on sidelines of summit in Kazakhstan

today4 July, 2024

Background

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Wednesday in Astana. The expected admission of Belarus to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization at its annual leaders’ summit is another push by Beijing and Moscow to transform the grouping into a geopolitical counterweight to the influence of the United States and its allies. Laura Westbrook has more.

 

Written by: Leonard Witbeen