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China’s top spy agency casts doubt over Xi Jinping attending Apec talks

  • Ministry of State Security calls on Washington to ‘show real sincerity’ in social media post
  • It also accuses US of being ‘two-faced’ in its China policy, which it says is ‘doomed to fail’

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World leaders will attend the annual Apec summit in San Francisco in November. Photo: Bloomberg
Yuanyue Dangin Beijing
China’s top spy agency has cast doubt over President Xi Jinping’s attendance at the coming Apec summit in San Francisco in a social media post calling on the US to “show real sincerity”.

In the WeChat post on Monday, the Ministry of State Security said that despite positive signals from senior US officials during recent China visits, Washington’s new approach was to “compete” with Beijing.

The ministry – which oversees the secret police and intelligence – accused the US of being “two-faced” in its China policy, which it said was “doomed to fail” as Beijing would not follow Washington’s agenda.

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“To truly realise the move from Bali to San Francisco, the US needs to show real sincerity,” it said.

That was a clear reference to a potential meeting between Xi and US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, to be held in the Californian city in November. The two leaders last met at the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia last November.
President Xi Jinping will be absent from this weekend’s G20 summit in New Delhi. Photo: AP
President Xi Jinping will be absent from this weekend’s G20 summit in New Delhi. Photo: AP
It comes as China’s foreign ministry on Monday confirmed that Xi will miss this weekend’s G20 gathering in New Delhi, with Premier Li Qiang to take his place.
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