This year's G20 and Global Climate Summits will be held in Italy and the Uk this weekend.
On the eve of the two major summits on the global climate of the Italian G20 and the United Kingdom, the Russian side announced that due to the epidemic, President Putin will participate in the summit by video link. The Chinese president also participated in the summit by remote video this time.
In addition, Japan's new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Mexican President Obrador also decided not to travel to Italy to attend the meeting because of the election and the epidemic. The presence of Brazilian President Bolsonaro is also unknown.
On the eve of the G20 summit, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Italy, the host country. As we know, Italy is the first Western power in the seven major industrial groups to openly support China's "Belt and Road", and it is also a European country that has carried out close anti-epidemic cooperation with China since the epidemic. For a long time, Italy and China have had quite friendly relations. However, after the new Italian Prime Minister Draghi took office, due to the pressure of the United States and the country, he once made some remarks that were not friendly to China.
Wang Yi's current visit to Italy is naturally aimed at eliminating some differences between the two sides, further consolidating the consensus between the two countries, and promoting pragmatic cooperation in various fields. As the host country of this year's G20, Wang Yi's visit to Italy will also help the two sides to coordinate and communicate before the meeting.
On September 7 this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping also had a phone call with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Xi Jinping praised Italy, as the rotating chair of the G20, for actively promoting global public health cooperation and economic cooperation, and hoped that Italy would play an active role in promoting the healthy and stable development of China-EU relations. Xi Jinping also pointed out that the current global fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic and the recovery of the world economy are in a critical period, and the G20, as the main platform for international economic cooperation, should adhere to true multilateralism, gather more consensus on fighting the epidemic and restoring the world economy, lead the right direction of global governance, and work together to meet common challenges.
From this point of view, Wang Yi's current visit to Italy is precisely to further implement the spirit of the call between the two heads of state.
Leaders attending the G20 summit in Italy will then move to Glasgow, UK, for the 26th annual Global Climate Summit next week.
The G20 summit in Italy and the global climate summit in the United Kingdom lacked the presence of the heads of state of China and Russia, and the most eye-catching meeting scenes and interactions between the leaders of China and Russia and the leaders of Western powers such as the United States were missing.
Since the leaders of China and Russia are not present, and the leaders of Western countries have gone to Italy and Britain, the two summits are likely to have the phenomenon of "gangs" of Western countries pulling together gangs and factions, and attacking China and Russia on issues such as energy prices, supply chains and climate. Developing countries will also lose their backbone and leader on the major issues discussed on the spot. Fortunately, there were also video speeches by Chinese and Russian leaders, which elaborated on the views of the two countries at the two summits, setting the tone for the positions of the vast number of developing countries. (Phoenix TV Yan Ming reported from Paris)
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Wang Yi attended the G20 summit and met with foreign ministers
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with the foreign ministers of Italy, south Korea, and Indonesia on the eve of attending the G20 Leaders' Summit in Rome on the 29th.
In a meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Dima, Wang Yi said that China attaches great importance to Italy's status and role as an EU power and regards Italy as a priority partner. China is willing to work with Italy to promote the G20 in advocating multilateralism, resist unilateralism and protectionism, and promote a strong recovery of the global economy.
Di Mayo said Italy pursues a one-China policy, and China has become Italy's largest export destination in Asia. Italy is willing to take the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" as a new starting point to promote all-round cooperation between the two sides. The two sides agreed to promote people-to-people exchanges, support each other in hosting the Beijing Winter Olympics and Milan Winter Olympics, expand new areas of cooperation in the ice and snow industries of the two countries, and oppose the politicization of sports. Wang Yi and Di Mayo also exchanged views on addressing climate change and the situation in Afghanistan.
When Wang Yi met with ROK Foreign Minister Jeong Yirong, both sides expressed satisfaction with the steady and healthy development of Sino-ROK relations and unanimously agreed to successfully hold the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the ROK next year and consolidate political mutual trust. The two sides also exchanged views on the latest developments in the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
Wang Yi also met with Indonesian Foreign Minister Leteno on the same day, and the two sides exchanged views on G20 cooperation.
Wang Yi said that China supports Indonesia in hosting the G20 summit next year, and China is willing to work with Indonesia and all parties to guide the summit to pay more attention to the legitimate demands of emerging markets and developing countries and respond more effectively to global challenges. The two sides also exchanged views on China-ASEAN cooperation and expressed serious concerns about the risk of nuclear proliferation caused by the planned nuclear submarine cooperation between the United States, Britain and Australia. (Phoenix TV Cao Jie, Zhang Dun, Rome report)
Editor: Erya Wang