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China’s Xi Jinping begins G20 meetings with US allies

Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping meets with the leaders of Australia, France and South Korea. They meet at the Group of 20 summit in Bali. China’s relations with these three US allies have deteriorated in recent years. After a near three-year exile from the world stage, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has launched on a frenzy of face-to-face encounters … Read more

Biden, Xi agree to plan arms control talks: White House

Biden, Xi agree to plan arms control talks: White House

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping agreed during their virtual summit to work on organizing talks between the nuclear-armed nations on arms control, a senior White House official said Tuesday. Biden and Xi met via teleconference for more than three hours late Monday (early Tuesday in Beijing) in a bid to ease tensions between the … Read more

UN chief warns G20 of ‘serious risk’ of failure at climate talks

G20

ROME – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned global leaders Friday that upcoming climate talks in the Scottish city Glasgow could fail without renewed trust among G20 leaders, calling for “more ambition and more action”. “There is a serious risk that Glasgow will not deliver,” Guterres told journalists, on the eve of a weekend meeting of … Read more