SAN FRANCISCO – Chinese President Xi Jinping, recent off his meeting with President Joe Biden, courted Indo-Pacific leaders in a flurry of conferences Thursday at a time of intensifying pageant with the United States.
Xi held person talks with the leaders of Mexico, Peru and Fiji, and he deliberate a later consultation with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, all at the sidelines of a summit of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation economies.
In a assembly with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, Xi stated the 2 nations will have to give a boost to financial and industry cooperation and pledged China’s strengthen for Peru as host of subsequent yr’s summit of APEC leaders.
In explicit, Xi stated, China can be keen to import extra “premium” agricultural merchandise from the South American nation and can inspire Chinese companies to take part in primary tasks in Peru.
Earlier, Xi held talks with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, praising the Mexican president for his management and reform efforts and pledging to carry the China-Mexico dating to a new stage. It used to be believed to be the primary face-to-face assembly between the 2 males.
During the assembly, the 2 aspects agreed to deepen cooperation on counternarcotics efforts. China and the United States on Wednesday stated the 2 would paintings in combination to stem the go with the flow of fentanyl precursors to nations similar to Mexico prior to the drug is completed and will get smuggled into the U.S.
Xi stated the 2 nations will have to collaborate in industries similar to infrastructure, finance and electrical automobiles, whilst Lopez Obrador stated Mexico would clean the way in which for Chinese companies making an investment in Mexico. The Mexican chief additionally stated his nation could be keen to paintings with China on multilateral affairs and lend a hand advertise members of the family between China and Latin America, in line with China’s state media.
In fresh years, many Chinese companies — confronted with price lists and different restrictions from the U.S. executive — have moved some manufacturing to Mexico. Xi expressed his sympathy for the ones suffering from Hurricane Otis and stated China made emergency preparations for Mexico to acquire reduction provides.
The Mexican president posted on X in a while after his assembly with Xi that the 2 leaders “reiterated the commitment to continue maintaining good relations to the benefit of our people and our nations.”
Xi additionally met Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka. Xi stated Beijing is treating Fiji as “a good friend and a good partner” in the Global South, kind of relating to growing nations.
Xi spent four hours with Biden on Wednesday, their first face-to-face assembly in a yr.