China - where President Xi Jinping is hosting a summit with the leaders of five Central Asian nations.
The summit coincides with a G7 meeting of advanced economies, being held in Japan.
It involves Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan

China’s President Xi Jinping is in the central city of Xian where he is hosting his first-ever summit with the leaders of five Central Asian nations, underlining Beijing’s growing influence in a region that Russia has long considered its own back yard.

The two-day event brings together the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan whose countries are crucial to China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

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