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President Vladimir Putin and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will hold bilateral talks later this month, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported on Tuesday. The meeting is set to review what has been a turbulent 2022 for Putin, whose protracted war in Ukraine, now in its 10th month, has isolated Russia from half the global economy and undermined Moscow's standing in multilateral forums like the United Nations. For Xi, the year has been no less transformative. China's president secured a norm-breaking third term as leader of the long-ruling Communist Party in October and earlier this month abruptly rolled back his zero-tolerance public...
