President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jing Ping, of Russia and China respectively, are set to meet on Friday on the sidelines of an Asian nations conference. The World’s Marco Werman spoke with Erica Marat, an associate professor at National Defense University, about what we can expect from the meeting and how the two nations’ relationship is evolving.
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