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US, Chinese leaders seek to stabilise strained relations during face-to-face talks in Bali, Indonesia.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping held their first in-person talks since 2017 on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, on Monday. Here are some takeaways from the three-and-a-half hour meeting:

Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) - Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping tried to take some heat out of their simmering superpower rivalry Monday, during a three-hour summit that found common ground on Ukraine but left little doubt that stark differences remain.

Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) nations deplored Russia's aggression in Ukraine "in the strongest terms" and demanded its unconditional withdrawal in a declaration adopted at the end of a two-day summit.

Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, and Indonesia’s PT Pertamina (Persero) are exploring collaboration across the hydrogen and ammonia value chain. The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining future cooperation across this key pathway of the energy transition, in a ceremony that took…

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud traveled on Monday to Indonesia, leading the Kingdom’s delegation to the G20 Leaders Summit in Bali. The Royal Court announced that the Crown Prince traveled upon the directives of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.…

Four-year-old Melody Riley has been around Asia and Europe with her dad Joe and mum Rachael

Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) - Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping clashed Monday over Taiwan but found areas of common ground during the powers' first in-person summit in three years, including a joint warning against Russia using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Joe Biden met on Monday on the Indonesian island of Bali for highly anticipated talks that come as relations between their countries have fallen to their lowest level in decades.

However, Rishi Sunak appeared to acknowledge that world leaders meeting in Bali are split on the issue of explicitly criticising the invasion.

The leaders of the world’s biggest economies assemble in Bali this week for the annual G20 summit. They do so facing multiple interconnected global crises. Russia’s war in Ukraine, economic slowdown in China, heightened Sino-American tensions over Taiwan, precipitous worldwide increases in costs of living, and growing global food shortages…