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China’s Xi arrives in Kazakhstan on first foreign trip since pandemic

China’s President Xi Jinping arrived in Kazakhstan for a state visit on Wednesday, Chinese state media reported. It is Xi’s first trip to a foreign nation since China all but shut its borders due to COVID-19.

 Xi is expected in neighbouring Uzbekistan later on Wednesday where he will take part in a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a regional security body, and meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, among others.