https://www.scmp.com/rss/323251/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com This weekend in Hangzhou (杭州), in advance of the G20 annual forum, Xi Jinping (習近平) and Barack Obama will have their ninth face-to-face meeting. (One final exchange seems likely to occur in November at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation annual meeting in Lima, Peru.) The political calendars of the two presidents have diverged in important ways. Xi is deeply involved in leadership selection ahead of next autumn’s 19th party congress, whereas Obama’s much more compressed agenda, in his final 4½... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2012233/can-xi-keep-geopolitics-table-g20?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2012233/can-xi-keep-geopolitics-table-g20?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 02 Sep 2016 06:08:00 +0000