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Last update: November 20, 2024
APEC and G20: How Xi is seizing the moment for himself
With regard to China, high-level meetings dominated the coverage of the APEC summit in Lima, Peru, and the G20 meeting in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro: Chinese leader Xi Jinping held bilateral talks with US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, France's Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, among others. However, China achieved important results for Beijing elsewhere: On his trip to South America, Xi underscored his role as a self-proclaimed advocate of the Global South and as a stable trading partner in various ways.