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It has pumped billions into a contentious trade and infrastructure programme, better known as the Belt and Road initiative, to shore up ties with the so-called Global South.

And how, after a contentious creative split four decades ago, did they find themselves reunited for, of all things, a documentary?

“������ you have without mediation are disputes that are going to be more prolonged, more contentious,” Resh said.

In addition, the artist comes off as smarmy and contentious at times, belying his “holy man” persona and populist vibe.

The contentious hearing, which led to swarms of media, yielded few developments.