As President Xi Jinping rolls out the red carpet today for 37 heads of state and more than 5,000 government officials and business leaders in the country's most important diplomatic event of the year, he will be gunning for a big public relations victory that will hopefully turn the tide on the controversies that have besieged his pet Belt and Road campaign.
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