Xi Jinping

The meeting took place in Bali, a day before the G-20 summit is due to kick off. It was the first physical meeting between Biden and Xi since the former took charge as US President. Xi spoke about charting a "flight course" for the relationship between the two superpowers, which is important not only for the two countries, but also for the whole world.

It is a known fact that Chinese investments in Pakistan have been provided with assurances by the government and secured by the Pakistani armed forces. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif concluded his maiden visit to China at a time when 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China also successfully concluded.

The meeting in Bali on the sidelines of the G20 summit will be the first between the two leaders since Biden took office in January 2021, according to the White House. When asked at the press briefing if he was committed to defending Taiwan militarily and willing to make any concessions, Biden said: "I'm not willing to make any fundamental concessions."

Joe Biden also hopes to have "honest" conversations about China's policies regarding Taiwan, human rights issues and some of its trade and economic practices. This will be their first in-person meeting as Presidents of their respective countries. They first met as Vice President in 2011 and have spoken five times since Biden took office as President.

The $13 billion package is equal to 38 per cent of the estimated gross external financing requirements of Pakistan for fiscal year 2022-23, The Express Tribune reported. Its materialisation can eliminate the threat of default, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not come up with a big financial package despite imposing numerous harsh conditions.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Sharif said that they also "agreed to increase multilateral cooperation between China and Pakistan, including CPEC, and further strengthen the strategic partnership". The Pakistani leader also posted images of the meeting. Sharif landed in Beijing on Tuesday night on a two-day official visit -- the first since he took office in April this year.

Xi's regime, which is already engaged in a programme of mass incarceration of Uyghurs and mass surveillance and police controls in Xinjiang and Tibet, will continue to pose a grave threat to minority groups, exiled Uyghur rights activist and businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer told a recent forum in Taiwan, RFA reported.

It shows in greater detail how outgoing Politburo member Li Zhanshu, to Hu's left, takes a file away and speaks to him, BBC reported. Then China's current leader Xi Jinping gives lengthy instructions to another man who subsequently attempts to persuade Hu to leave.

Beijing has pledged to annex Taiwan under a disputed claim that it is a Chinese province, and in recent years has increased its military activity and other forms of harassment and coercion, The Guardian reported. No timeline has been set, but senior defence figures have said China could be capable of invasion as early as 2027. Others point to Xi's pledge of "national rejuvenation" by 2047 -- the centenary of the People's Republic of China -- as a potential goal.

Now, the Communists party in China moves on to a new central task -- to achieve the "second centenary goal of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects and to advance the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path to modernisation.