Xi meets with multiple foreign dignitaries
Chinese President Xi Jinping has met with multiple foreign leaders and heads of international organizations over the past weekend in North China's Tianjin, the host city of the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit, marking a vibrant period in China's diplomatic engagements. | Among leaders from more than 20 countries and heads of 10 international organizations for the SCO Summit 2025, Xi has met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Myanmar's acting president Min Aung Hlaing, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres over the weekend, according to Xinhua News Agency. ■ The SCO Summit marks China's embrace of a bustling season of head-of-state diplomacy. This series of events fully demonstrates the importance of multilateral platform such as SCO, and China's increasingly prominent role in a multipolar world, Wang Huiyao, founder and president of think tank the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), told the Global Times on Sunday.
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