Xi Jinping

"It's something we're considering," Biden told reporters in the Oval Office following a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A senior administration official told CNN that Biden is not expected to attend the upcoming Olympics in China in February 2022 and that his administration is on the verge of implementing a diplomatic boycott of the games, the report said.

The Plenary Session passed the "Third Historical Resolution" in the history of the Chinese Communist Party". It was like using a century of history is to better lock in the future. The Communist Party of China (CCP) unsurprisingly adopted the resolution to further enhance President Xi Jinping's idol status in the country, which heralds a new era.

The virtual meeting will be the platform Xi seeks to raise his country's bar, naturally under his leadership as the other two cores look on, to the level of the US, equal to it in spirit, influence and power even if economic or military superiority still eludes Xi. China's envoy to the US, Qin Gang could not suppress his triumph at his leader's most honoured position in his country.

Given the flux in bilateral ties, the gesture appears to be a deceptive genuflection by Washington which has fought off allegations of a "Thucydides' Trap" by Beijing amid rising tensions between the largest economy and the most populous country.

The high-stakes meet is set amid increasing hostility among the world's two largest economies. "The two leaders will discuss ways to responsibly manage the competition between the US and the PRC, as well as ways to work together where our interests align. Throughout, President Biden will make clear US intentions and priorities and be clear and candid about our concerns with the PRC," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.

The ostensible reason for Xi's lack of foreign travel is Covid-19, though officials have not said so explicitly. It is also a calculation that has reinforced a deeper shift in China's foreign and domestic policy", the report added. China, under Xi, no longer feels compelled to cooperate - or at least be seen as cooperating - with the US and its allies on anything other than its own terms.

Xi made the remarks in a reply to North Korean leader Kim's earlier letter to mark the 72nd Chinese National Day, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). In the reply, Xi said he has highly taken note of relations between North Korea and China, and expressed his willingness to raise bilateral ties to a "new level", Yonhap News Agency reported citing KCNA. North Korea and China have emphasised their close relations amid the paused nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington, and an escalating rivalry between the two superpowers.

As Xi has launched a nationwide political campaign built around the Maoist nostrum of "common prosperity" in response to China's deep income inequalities, investors have become nervous about a broad reversal of fortune, Jeremy Mark writes in Atlantic Council. The Evergrande crisis only underlines their concerns about the prospects for China's property sector, which, ironically.

Xi was speaking remotely at the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Xinhua news agency reported.

The current crisis in its observer state remains the biggest topical issue of regional and international importance for the SCO gathering, which also includes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. However, with the Former President Ashraf Ghani fleeing the presidential palace and the Taliban regime still not recognised by the world.