President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan held a welcome ceremony for Central Asian leaders and their wives in Tang Paradise, a complex based on the site of the original relic of an imperial garden dating back to the Tang Dynasty, in Xi an on Thursday night. China-Central Asia Summit kicked off on the same day.
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Russia celebrated the 78th anniversary of the Soviet Union s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II with an annual military parade at the Red Square on Tuesday, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Ukraine s capital Kiev on the same day to mark Europe Day as the bloc is mulling 11th round of sanctions against Russia for the conflict with Ukraine.
The upcoming China-Central Asia Summit the first of its kind, scheduled to be held in Xi’an next week, will witness ties between China and the five Central Asian countries elevated to a new high. Fruitful, comprehensive results are expected to be realized in multiple areas, be it political, economic and security, as participating countries are expected to reach new consensus of cooperation amid new challenges and risks in the region, said observers.