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(CNN) — Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next week on the sidelines of a summit in Uzbekistan. This meeting will be the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders, who have established a close relationship since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. This meeting also marks Xi’s first outing since the early days of the pandemic, and it will also take place a few weeks before an important political meeting in Beijing, where he is expected to break with tradition and assume a third term in power, consolidating his role as China’s most powerful...
