In Samarkand the meeting between Putin and Xi: “Ready to work together as great powers”

SAMARKAND – Says President Xi Jinping that “this chaotic world” needs order, and China is ready to offer “stability and positive energy”. It is not a joke and perhaps not even a threat: it is the ambition to play a growing role as a great world power, an ambition that also transpires in the handshake of the “old friend” Vladimir Putin, as he greets him on the red carpets of the Center congresses of Samarkand: the ancient Uzbek city hosts the