Chinese and US leaders may meet at G20 or APEC summit in November

Chinese leader Xi Jinping plans to hold a personal meeting with US President Joe Biden. reported newspaper The Wall Street Journal.

According to the publication, Chinese officials are preparing his visit to Southeast Asia and a meeting with Biden in November. This will be the first meeting between the leaders of the two countries since the inauguration of the President of the United States.

Xi Jinping will sum up the results of the party congress, and then he may take part in the G20 summit on the Indonesian island of Bali, which will be held on November 15-16, after which he may head to Bangkok for the APEC summit. The meeting with Biden may take place as part of one of these summits.

August 4, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky declared in an interview with the South China Morning Post that he wants to personally discuss the conflict in Ukraine with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. According to him, since the beginning of the special operation, Ukraine has repeatedly officially asked for negotiations with China, but the meeting of the heads of state never happened.

After the start of the special operation in China, they refrained from condemning Russia’s actions and noted that the West played an important role in fomenting the conflict. China also did not join the sanctions against Russia and criticized Western countries for imposing restrictive measures.

Disagreements arose between China and the United States over the visit of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, which China considers its province. She said she flew to the island to testify to US support for democracy in Taiwan. The Chinese Foreign Ministry strongly protested this visit, and Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying on his Twitter account wrotethat China cannot allow the US to consider itself “the world’s policeman”.