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On Wednesday, Xi Jinping kicked off a three-day trip to the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Apart from the usual state visit formalities, while in Uzbekistan Xi will also take part in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Samarkand – where all bets are that...