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Li Ling, a lecturer of Chinese politics at the University of Vienna, said at an online panel hosted by the Asia Society that she expects the 69-year-old Xi to be an exception to the age limit, which she anticipates he will enforce for others.

"Xi Jinping will come. President Putin has also told me he will come," dpa news agency quoted Widodo as saying to Bloomberg in an interview published on Friday. Indonesia currently holds the G20 presidency. Widodo had invited Putin but the Kremlin has so far not confirmed the Russian President's plans either way.

Spokesperson Hua Chunying said President Xi will host the High-level Dialogue on Global Development in Beijing on June 24. The Dialogue will be held in virtual format under the theme of "Foster a Global Development Partnership for the New Era to Jointly Implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", and BRICS leaders and leaders of relevant emerging markets and developing countries will attend the event.

“I think we're in a genuine struggle between autocracies and democracies and whether or not democracies can be sustained,” Biden said. He further said that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping does not believe that democracy is an efficient form of governance and hence cannot be sustained in the 21st century. This is because, President Biden added, as per his Chinese counterpart democracies cannot arrive at a consensus on critical factors like rapidly evolving technologies.

In their first talks after the Russian action in Ukraine, Xi said state-to-state relations cannot go to the stage of military hostilities. "Peace and security are the most valued treasures of the international community," he said as per Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. Xi also said that China-US relations should "move forward along the right track" as part of efforts for "world peace and tranquillity".

The two leaders' first phone call since a video summit in November 2021 will be a chance to air differences as the US spearheads an unprecedented pressure campaign on Russia, placing China in a geopolitical bind. It's "an opportunity for President Biden to assess where President Xi stands", White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said of the call scheduled for Friday.

Away from political analysts assertions of a "frozen conflict" when Russia took over Crimea in 2014, President Vladimir Putins invasion of Ukraine now has the global hot pot boiling. But the hot pot, one of the most favourite culinary offerings of the Chinese, isn't really boiling in China, at least not over the Ukrainian conflict. Lately, Russia's dearest neighbour to the south has been wallowing in impressive economic numbers announced after its vaunted ‘Two Sessions'.

Xi pointed out that the combined impact of major global changes and the pandemic, both unseen in a century, has brought multiple global challenges that need to be addressed through global cooperation, Xinhua news agency reported. Noting that China and the EU share much common understanding on promoting peace, seeking development and advancing cooperation.

On 16th February, Representative Hartzler (of the Republican Party) introduced the said bill “to ban individuals serving in the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and their family members from receiving student or research visas,” a press release issued by her official website said. “Xi Mingze, the daughter of General Secretary Xi Jinping, previously completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard in 2014.

The provincial government has formed a team to “find the truth, punish those who violated laws, hold those involved accountable and release the results to the public in a timely manner,” state broadcaster China Central Television said on Thursday in a statement on one of its social media accounts. The scandal is said to mar the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in terms of public discourse.