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Russian President Putin is in China for a four-day visit that will include meetings with

President Xi Jinping and India's leader Nandira Modi. As NPR's Charles Main reports from Moscow,

the gathering comes amid talks of a global realignment.

President Putin has long argued for a new multipolar world, less dominated by the U.S.

His visit to China will see that vision on full display.

Putin will join a regional security summit in which anger over punitive U.S. economic

policies are expected to take center stage.

That includes by India.

A U.S. ally increasingly adrift after President Trump imposed steep tariffs over its purchase of discounted Russian oil amid the war in Ukraine.

Yet Russia's biggest trading partner remains China. Putin will meet separately with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

He'll also join North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un among Xi's guests of honor at a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II

and the symbolic show of a new global order. Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.

The labor movement is preparing for mass Labor Day protest across the country as NPR's

Andrea Shoe reports organizers have events planned at all 50 states. The theme of many of these

events is workers over

billionaires. AFLCIO president, Lou Schuller, says workers have stood up to billionaires before,

but what we've never seen is those same CEOs and billionaires being handed full control of our

government, our democracy, our lives. She highlighted four members of President Trump's

cabinet who fit that category. Schuller says Trump is reversing progress on union jobs,

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