“I think it’s a good opportunity to introduce China to our partners and find a way to rebuild the global economy”, he said.
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“A balance or lack of it in China would mean enormous amounts of money for US trade, so this is a significant issue for USA business”, Amos said.
China is hosting the Group of 20 summit of industrialized and emerging economies.
“Where there’s a will and there’s a vision, and where countries like China and the United States are prepared to show leadership and to lead by example, it is possible for us to create a world that is more secure, more prosperous, and more free than the one that was left for us”, Obama added.
“Let’s make cooperation ever higher”, it wrote in a commentary last week.
Despite the expected arrival on Wednesday of Hurricane Madeline, which is barreling down on the Big Island of Hawaii, Obama is scheduled to deliver Thursday’s opening address of the World Conservation Congress in the state where he was born.
Another watchpoint is what new ideas for economic development the Hangzhou summit might provide.
But the G20 is no place for tough talk about these issues, Gao Hong, a Japan expert at the official Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, wrote Tuesday in China’s state-run Global Times newspaper.
Charities working in the region such as China Aid and Christian Solidarity Worldwide have continued to raise concerns about the process of cross removal and the arrest of church leaders and lawyers defending religious freedoms. “It has reached the point where people are not afraid to speak up any more. They criticize this, they criticize that”, Ma told CNN’s Andrew Stevens.
He also said that Kazakhstan looks forward to closer cooperation with China in trade, agriculture, energy, petroleum processing, environmental protection and security, and would strengthen communication with China on regional affairs and within the framework of the SCO.
“The Chinese would shut you down at once if you said you wanted to buy one of their grids”.
None of this will make for plain sailing at G20.
G20 countries have imposed a record 145 new trade-restrictive measures in the seven-month period from last November to May 2016, says the World Trade Organisation – the most since monitoring began in 2009.
Yet equally important are efforts to reform global economic governance.
“It’s a minefield for China”.
The U.S. Republican Party Platform has also questioned the legality of the executive order used to ratify the Paris deal, saying it will need the consent of the Senate before it becomes binding.
Professor Kerry Brown, director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College in London, said the G-20 is part of China’s progress from silent leadership under former president Hu Jintao to a more “proactive, and a more communicative, worldwide role” under President Xi.
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What it wants least: Any discussion of sensitive political issues, chiefly disputes in which China appears as an aggressive revanchist power eager to erase the humiliations of the past two centuries.
