Xi met Trump, then Putin. What did the meetings reveal?


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Key Points Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump met with Xi Jinping within a week of each other. Some experts say China is increasingly positioning itself as “the place where major power diplomacy must pass”. Peking duck, Chinese opera and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake — this was Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s grand welcome for his “old friend”, Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Not seeing you for one day feels like being apart for three autumns,” Putin told Xi, a saying from one of China’s oldest poetry collections, as they greeted in Beijing. The friendly exchange took place in the Great Hall of the…

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