President Xi Jinping's unscripted moments during the summits in Southeast Asia last week offered rare insights into the country's most powerful leader in decades and reassurances about his post-pandemic diplomacy.
An international relations lecturer at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia Nur Rachmat Yuliantoro, assumes "Xi will use this event to state directly Beijing’s position on various political, economic and security issues in the world today"
Pang Zhongying is a chair professor in international political economy at the School of Economics, Sichuan University in Chengdu. He holds a PhD in international politics from Peking University and a MA in international studies from Warwick University, England. He was a visiting senior fellow with the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore and a resident visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Dr Pang has been teaching international relations and global issues at China’s leading universities for the past 20 years.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo is set to be the first foreign leader to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in person since the Beijing Winter Games in February, when he travels to China next week.
China will launch a new campaign to improve protection of cultural relics as part of its efforts to boost domestic confidence in the country’s culture and increase its international allure.