President Xi Jinping will leave China this week for the first time in more than two years to visit Central Asia, where he will meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Reuters reported.

Vladimir Putin and Xi JinpingPhoto: Oleksiy Druzhinin / AP – The Associated Press / Profimedia

This trip, the first foreign trip since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, shows how confident President Xi Jinping is in his power in China and how dangerous the global situation has become: Russia’s confrontation with the West over Ukraine, the crisis around Taiwan and the unstable economic situation around the world, notes Reuters.

The Chinese president is due to pay a state visit to Kazakhstan on Wednesday, before meeting his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Uzbek city of Samarkand, one of the world’s oldest cities and a Silk Road crossing (Source Agerpres)

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