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China and Russia highlight ‘tectonic shifts in global politics’

President Xi, left, meets President Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Astana [Sergei Guneev/Sputnik via Reuters]

The presidents of China and Russia urged allies to resist external influence saying the global centres of power are changing and a multipolar world is on the horizon.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping were in Kazakhstan’s capital of Astana on Thursday for a gathering of leaders from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) – a regional bloc that Moscow and Beijing see as a counterweight to US “hegemony” on the world stage.

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