Medvedev Seeks to Diversify China Trade From Energy
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President Dmitry Medvedev travels to China next week in a bid to diversify trade even as Russia plans to boost oil and gas exports to its Asian neighbor.
Medvedev, who took his first presidential trip outside the former Soviet Union to China in 2008, is returning for a three-day visit on Sept. 26 to push his agenda of Russia’s modernization away from a “primitive” resource-based economy.