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Why Did China, Mongolia, and Russia Skip Their Trilateral Leaders’ Summit at This Year’s SCO Gathering?
On July 3, Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat as director of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Foreign Affairs Commission Office and concurrently the foreign minister, presided over trilateral foreign ministers’ consultations with Russian Foreign …