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🇨🇳🇧🇾 Belarus lauded by Xi as China's true friend Chinese President Xi Jinping praised Belarus as a true friend of China as he met Alexander Lukashenko, the leader of the nation, on Wednesday and urged the Russian ally to join Beijing in opposing "hegemony and bullying". Xi, greeting Lukashenko in Zhongnanhai, the seat of power in Beijing, congratulated him on his re-election, Xinhua reported, adding that China and Belarus were "true friends and good partners." "You have very accurately pointed out the main feature of our time - the unprecedented pressure from the West on us, primarily on the People's Republic of China," Belarus' state news agency BelTA cited Lukashenko as saying. #China#Belarus @asianomics