The U.S. president shook hands with his Russian counterpart in front of cameras in Hangzhou, where world leaders were meeting to discuss topics including trade and global security.
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The image of Chinese President Xi Jinping standing among leaders from emerging markets and developed countries sends a strong signal: that we are in the same boat, with China charting the course ahead this time.
Touching upon the Putin-Obama meeting, Oganesyan suggested that despite Obama’s desire to reach a consensus on the Syrian issue, he first and foremost sought to play up to Democratic Party voters ahead of the presidential elections in the US. The president of the European Commission highlighted the conflict by calling for the summit to take action.
President Barack Obama says the NFL quarterback who is refusing to stand for the national anthem is the latest in a long line of professional athletes who have exercised their constitutional right to make a statement about social issues.
Xi told South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye that Beijing opposed the USA deployment of the THAAD anti-missile system in her country.
In his speech, Xi called on the G20 leading economies to support developing countries and take concrete measures so as to avoid a scenario that these countries are stripped of the opportunities to draw foreign investment, participate in global trade and improve the livelihood of their people, the former ambassador said.
China hopes to use its status as this year’s G-20 leader to increase its influence in global economic management.
In fact, global governance only entered the official Chinese political parlance in the wake of the 2008 crisis, and it was Xi who, years later, accredited the term its due prominence. “Before the Paris climate conference in December 2015, New Delhi submitted a long-term plan to reduce its emissions, pledging to cut fossil fuel emissions intensity by up to 35 per cent by 2030, compared with the 2005 level”, it said.
As India resisted pressure from the United States and China, who are responsible for around 40 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, to ratify the Paris climate deal this year, Chinese official media said it is high time India showed it means “business” in limiting climate change effects.
But EU commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said he opposes such talks while Britain remains part of the European Union.
China, the world’s biggest steel producer, has committed to reducing its production capacity by 100 to 150 million tons by 2020, a pledge Xi repeated Saturday.
Turnbull, meanwhile, said Australia wanted an early free trade agreement with Britain so markets could remain open between them when Britain formally left the European trading bloc.
He also expects the USA will provide help to Laos in dealing with unexploded munitions that remain in the Laotian countryside from the war. Washington has hiked import duties by up to 500 percent on Chinese steel to offset what it says are improper subsidies.
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In northern Syria, U.S. -backed Kurds have been the only effective fighters against Islamic State. “Later, the US agreed it was a good arrangement”, the source said.
