XI’AN, June 20 (Xinhua) — When Sahedov Begench, a young entrepreneur from Turkmenistan based in the ancient Chinese city of Xi’an, checked in with his business partner Wang Yi in Almaty, Kazakhstan, over a video call, Wang reassured him that “everything is going smoothly,” noting that despite not speaking English or Russian, many people in Kazakhstan can communicate in Chinese.
Wang and Begench co-founded a cult