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Like a modern-day caravan, the long line of black Hongqi limousines cut through the arid ocher steppe, en route to Samarkand, like Xi Jinping's new silk road.
Sixty-three models of the automaker, which the Chinese president appreciates during his military parades in Tiananmen Square, passed through the Horgos border crossing earlier this month, en route to Kazakhstan, where the leader began his first visit to Kazakhstan on Wednesday. abroad since the start of the pandemic.
After barricading himself for more than two years behind the great wall of quarantine, Xi is making his big international outing.
This will culminate in a meeting with Vladimir Putin, on the sidelines of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (CSO), which is being held Thursday and Friday in Uzbekistan, as a challenge to the West.
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