Joe Biden and Xi Jinping shake hands at the G20
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has said he is ready to have a “frank and deep” conversation with his US counterpart Joe Biden during their first face-to-face meeting in more than a decade.
The world’s two most powerful leaders smiled and shook hands in front of a row of Chinese and American flags at a luxury hotel on Bali’s Nusa Dua Bay.
Xi said the leaders should “walk the right path” and find the right direction for bilateral ties and “elevate their relationship.”
The two presidents will discuss issues ranging from Beijing’s stance on Taiwan to Russia’s war on Ukraine. “We spent a lot of time together back in the day when we were both vice presidents and it’s great to see you,” Biden told Xi as he put an arm around him.
“As leaders of our two nations, we share the responsibility, in my view, to show that China and the United States can manage our differences, prevent competition … from turning into conflict, and find ways to work together on pressing global issues that require our mutual cooperation,” he said.
The G20 summit itself will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Sunak urged G20 leaders to “fix the weaknesses” of the global economy
Rishi Sunak will call on his fellow G20 leaders to “fix the weaknesses” in the global economic system and work together to reduce prices driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The prime minister has arrived in Bali, Indonesia, for the two-day summit, which will officially begin on Tuesday.
Sunak said he would “call out the Putin regime” during the first meeting between a British prime minister and Russian government officials since the full-scale invasion of Moscow began in February.
He plans to face Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with allies at the first plenary session of the summit.
Ahead of the trip, the prime minister’s official spokesman said: “We will take absolutely every opportunity to confront Russia about its continued illegal actions.
“We…will speak to our allies with one voice on this.”
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Lavrov says hospitalization reports are ‘political game’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in a video, dismissed reports that he was taken to a Bali hospital as a “political game”. Indonesian officials said Lavrov was taken to a hospital and checked for a possible “heart condition” on Monday and later. released
In a video shared by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Mr Lavrov can be seen sitting outdoors in a courtyard, dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, reading documents.
The foreign minister, when asked about reports that he was currently in hospital, said: “Well, they have also been writing about our president. [Vladimir Putin] that he has been ill… this is a kind of game in politics”.
He added: “Western journalists must be more truthful, they must write the truth.” He did not directly deny that he had been in the hospital earlier that day.
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Rishi Sunak arrives in Bali for the G20
Rishi Sunak has arrived in Indonesia for a summit of the world’s most powerful economies that is expected to be dominated by tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The G20 is the second international summit attended by Mr. Sunak in three hectic weeks since he became prime minister, following the Cop27 talks in Egypt last week. He left the UK on Sunday afternoon for the 18-hour flight to the Southeast Asian archipelago state.
He had hoped to add a visit to Japan to the end of the trip, but was forced to abandon the idea to return to London for Jeremy Hunt’s crucial autumn statement on Thursday.
Andrew Woodcock reports from Bali.
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Sunak to call for G20 action to end Russian ‘power to surprise’ over energy
Rishi Sunak will call for global action to end Russia’s grip on global energy prices as he addresses other world leaders at the G20 summit in Indonesia.
Reducing dependence on Russian gas and oil, including increasing investment in renewable energy, is part of a five-point plan presented by the prime minister for coordinated global action to tackle the economic downturn worldwide
Sunak has vowed to confront Moscow’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, over the war in Ukraine when he becomes the first UK prime minister to speak to a representative of the Russian government since the February invasion.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar November 14, 2022 10:24 am
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Biden meets Xi for closed-door meeting in Bali
US President Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 leaders’ summit in Bali.
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Alisha Rahaman Sarkar November 14, 2022 10:16 am
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Japan’s Kishida will meet with the Chinese president on Thursday
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping amid rising tensions between the two Asian countries over Taiwan and North Korea.
“It is necessary to build constructive and stable relations between Japan and China through the efforts of both Japan and China,” said Hirokazu Matsuno, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary.
“We would like to have a meeting to move forward” in bilateral relations.
Both leaders are in Bali, Indonesia, to attend the two-day G20 summit.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar November 14, 2022 10:12 am
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Lavrov has been released from the hospital, says the governor of Bali
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has left hospital and is in “good” health, Bali’s governor said on Monday.
Mr Lavrov, who arrived in Bali on Sunday and is attending the G20 summit on behalf of Vladimir Putin, was earlier reported to have been taken to a hospital and was being treated for a heart condition.
The Russian foreign ministry released a video of Mr Lavrov smiling in front of a desk and said the reports were “baseless” and “the height of falsehood”.
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Breaking: Russia’s Sergei Lavrov taken to hospital after arriving in Bali
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been taken to hospital after suffering a health problem following his arrival for the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesian authorities said.
Indonesian government and medical officials said the Russian diplomat was being treated for a heart condition on the resort island.
More details to follow in this report:
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Britain and the EU are asking allies to discredit Russia, reports say
The EU and Britain are reportedly planning to snub Russian Sergei Lavrov at the G20 summit by staging walkouts and are encouraging their allies to follow suit.
The Telegraph quoted EU officials as saying they would do “everything possible” to isolate Russia at the Bali summit.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to skip the meeting and is sending his foreign minister to avoid world leaders critical of his nine-month war in Ukraine.
“We try to work with partners to show very, very, very strongly what the international community thinks about all these crimes, atrocities and illegal actions by Russia,” an EU foreign affairs spokesman told the British newspaper.
“That also means discouraging them from meeting Lavrov or meeting with whoever is leading the Russian delegation or for people to come out when Russia has the floor.”
The spokesman added: “The UK is not keen to co-ordinate with the EU on foreign policy generally, but on this issue we have the same goal and we reinforce each other’s efforts.”
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar November 14, 2022 8:51 am
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China hopes to restore relations with the US
Ahead of the much-anticipated meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Joe Biden, Beijing said on Monday it hopes to “return” relations between the two nations.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning was quoted by AFP as saying Beijing hopes the United States will “work together with China to keep differences under control.”
“We hope that the US… will promote mutually beneficial cooperation and avoid misunderstandings and misjudgments in order to push US-China relations back to healthy and stable development.”
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar November 14, 2022 8:48 am