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Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, visit the Acropolis Museum, accompanied by Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and his wife, Vlassia Pavlopoulou-Peltsemi, in Athens, Greece, ...

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Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, attends the CPC ...

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