Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are both planning to attend a Group of 20 summit on the resort island of Bali later this year, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said.
¡°Xi Jinping will come. President Putin has also told me he will come,¡± said Jokowi, as the president is known. It was the first time the leader of the world¡¯s fourth-most populous nation confirmed both of them were planning to show up at the November summit.
The presence of Xi and Putin at the meeting would set up a showdown with U.S. President Joe Biden and other democratic leaders, all of whom are set to meet in person for the first time since Russia¡¯s invasion of Ukraine. The attack, which came shortly after Putin and Xi declared a ¡°no limits¡± partnership, has left the G20 divided over whether to place sanctions on Russia.
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