Xi Jinping will attend a US-led climate summit this week, bolstering hopes of co-operation between the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters despite heated tensions between Beijing and Washington.
The two-day meeting, which will begin on Thursday, marks the first time the two leaders will participate at the same event since Joe Biden became US president. It will also take place amid growing concerns among the US and its allies about rising Chinese aggression and alleged human rights abuses in Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
The announcement was made a day after Xi launched a veiled attack on the US-led global order in a speech that attacked economic decoupling and unilateralism at the Boao Forum for Asia, China’s equivalent of the World Economic Forum in Davos.