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The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, reappears in public after days of speculation about his whereabouts, at an exhibition on the “New Era” of China, a concept he has promoted over the years. Also present at the exhibition were the other six members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo, the top decision-making power of the Chinese Communist Party. Xi had disappeared from the public scene after returning to Beijing from the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation organization in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in mid-September where he also met Vladimir Putin, president of Russia. In today’s visit to the exhibition at the Beijing...
