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INVESTIGATION. Support for Russia, breakthrough in the Middle East, espionage… Chinese President Xi Jinping, re-elected for a third term, defies the West.
By Jeremy Andre
Beijing-Moscow axis. Russian President Vladimir Putin receives his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on March 21 at the Kremlin.
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“En this very moment, there are changes like no one has seen in a hundred years, and we are driving them together. » Tuesday, March 21, in front of Vladimir Poutine, in Moscow, Xi Jinping had prepared his exit. The Heads of State left after a dinner at the Faceted Palace on Red Square, after two days of discussions ” between friends “. ” Totally agree “, answered the Russian president to his Chinese guest by accompanying him to the door of the Kremlin. This is how the two main enemies of the West sum up the way they reshuffle the cards of the world order.
The general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party is back in the center of the international scene, after three years of isolation due to a pandemic. On the occasion of his first trip abroad…
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