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NIZHNELENINSKOYE, Russia - Trumpeted for the past decade as an emblem of Russia’s destiny as an Asian as well as a European power, the huge steel bridge thrusts out from the Chinese side of the Amur River, stretching more than a mile across the turbid waters that divide the world’s most populous nation from its biggest.

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