Moscow has sometimes questioned whether USA -backed rebels really are moderate.
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China hopes its status as this year’s G-20 leader will increase its influence in global economic management.
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. “We need to protect the interests of the members of the European Union that want to stay together, not the one which wants to leave”, Tusk said.
“The market is distorted by subsidies and other support measures, and that is the fundamental problem”, said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to broadcaster NHK.
Going into the G-20 summit, many Western officials said they were looking for evidence China will back up its promises of better access for foreign businesses after stepping up protection of Chinese companies and industries through tighter cybersecurity and other rules. He said previous tax orders have affected European companies, including a January ruling that covered 35 enterprises, majority from Europe. “India has striven to become a world power and to have a bigger say in worldwide affairs, hence it needs to shoulder its due responsibilities and take actions, regardless of the difficulties, to help save the planet”, it said.
At one point, a White House official warned a Chinese counterpart against restricting access of pool reporters under the wing of Air Force One, noting that it was, after all, a USA plane.
The meeting of Putin and Obama is the first face-to-face meeting from November a year ago, when they met during the Summit on Climate Change in Paris. He noted that talks on Obama’s TPP initiative for Asia-Pacific governments and a U.S.
But furious speculation claiming it was a deliberate snub by China, fuelled in part by a tarmac stand-off between travel press and a Chinese agent, seems to have been misplaced, as United States sources told AFP the incident came about because Washington refused to use a Chinese staircase in favour of the plane’s built-in steps.
The U.S. says that and other recent tests violate U.N. Security Council resolutions and pose a threat to aircraft and ships nearby.
China has warned Seoul against installing the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system.
For the first time, the summit put development at the center of global macro policy framework and made a groundbreaking action plan implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, he added.
Beijing complains THAAD will allow the USA military to peer deep into northeastern China.
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Obama and Putin also discussed the conflict in Ukraine – a crisis that Obama had earlier discussed with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande.
