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CHINESE LETTER. The president, who has not left China since the appearance of the virus, is heading for Central Asia. One more step towards a Beijing-Moscow axis.
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By Jeremy Andrein Taipei
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To the end of the pandemic, after years of separation, closed borders, lockdowns and quarantines, it’s time for travel and reunion. Xi Jinping may make the pleasure last for his 1.4 billion citizens, by maintaining a strict zero Covid policy, he does not escape this planetary movement. On Wednesday September 14, he will set foot outside China for the first time, after more than 1,000 days barricaded behind his great sanitary wall. Destination: Noursultan (the former Astana, capital of Kazakhstan) first, then Samarkand (capital of Uzbekistan).
This outing was meticulously and lengthily prepared. The other major planetary leaders resumed their visits abroad in the summer of 2020. It was unthinkable for the se…
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