With Biden and Putin absent from APEC, China's Xi takes center stage

Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Bangkok Thursday for the last of three back-to-back international summits held over the past week in Asia -- this time for a gathering where the leaders of the United States and Russia will both be absent.

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