




The meeting is expected to push some key areas of mutual interest between both the nations. The ties had been impacted recently after a Chinese spy balloon had wafted across the US earlier this year.
Biden and Xi are due to meet on Wednesday on the sidelines of a Pacific Rim summit in California for the first face-to-face encounter in a year between the leaders of the world's two biggest economies.
The meeting is not expected to lead to many, if any, major announcements and differences between the two powers certainly won’t be resolved.
The case DouYu CEO Chen Shaojie going missing follows a pattern of top Chinese executives and senior members of the country’s ruling CCP (Chinese Communist Party) going incommunicado, only to be eventually revealed that they were being investigated for irregularities.
The two leaders are aiming to have a "constructive conversation" on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in San Francisco.
China has seen its first population decline in six decades with a rapidly aging population, prompting government efforts, including financial incentives and childcare support, to boost the birth rate and connect population growth to the nation's strength and rejuvenation.
The two sides worked out an agreement in principle to hold a meeting during the summit as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Friday with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, according to the official, who was not authorized to comment and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The meeting comes in the shadow of the continuing war in Ukraine
The occasion of Putin’s likely trip to Beijing is the tenth anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an ambitious Chinese project to expand global trade routes with other nations and extend transport and infrastructure links.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet China's Xi Jinping this week to strengthen the partnership between the two major strategic competitors of the United States.
Roads in a sizeable 'traffic control area' around the city's Olympic stadium were blocked off, at least one metro station was shut, and other Games centres were closed off ahead of an opening ceremony organisers say will be "mesmerizing".
The former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management says the New Delhi summit's biggest takeaway is that one cannot deal with big global issues without including major emerging powers
Chinese President Xi Jinping decided to skip the G20 Leaders' Summit in New Delhi, with the world's second largest economy instead represented by Premier Li Qiang. However, the Indian government does not view this as a snub
Li, the number two ranked leader of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), is currently in New Delhi, deputing for President Xi Jinping, to attend the annual G20 summit being hosted by India from September 9-10.
The president's latest remarks come as China's trade slumped in recent months as weaker demand threatens recovery prospects in the world's second-largest economy, prompting top leaders to introduce further policy support.
US President Joe Biden on Thursday hoped that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping would attend the G20 Summit in New Delhi.
G20 Summit: Russian President Vladimir Putin has already conveyed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that it will not be possible for him to travel to India to participate in the summit.
G20 Summit 2023: Two Indian officials, one diplomat based in China and one official working for the government of another G20 country said Premier Li Qiang is expected to represent Beijing at the Sept. 9-10 meeting in New Delhi.
Modi underlined that maintenance of peace and tranquility in the border areas is essential for the normalisation of the India-China relationship, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said.
Modi and Xi are in the South African city of Johannesburg to attend the annual summit of BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa). Video footage aired by a South African broadcaster showed Modi and Xi having a brief exchange.