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With violence raging in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Chinese President Xi Jinping held a summit this week in Beijing touting his signature diplomatic initiative, the trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as a pathway toward global unity.

But all anyone wanted to talk about was one of the folks who turned up for the summit: Vladimir Putin.

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