Xi Jinping will leave China this week for the first time in more than two years for a trip to Central Asia where he will meet Vladimir Putin just a month before Xi is poised to cement his place as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. The trip, his first abroad since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, shows just how confident Xi is about his grip on power in China.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/xi-leaves-china-for-first-time-since-covid-pandemic-began-to-meet-putin/articleshow/94135019.cms