As a trade war looms with the U.S. and nuclear negotiations slow, Xi Jinping is making his debut visit to North Korea, shortly after Kim Jong Un's recent trip to Russia.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is soon set to make his debut visit to North Korea at a time when both countries are struggling to make progress in separate talks with the United States.
Xi has met with Kim four times, each time in China, and his upcoming visit would mark the first such Chinese state trip since Xi's predecessor, Hu Jintao, met with Kim's late father, Kim Jong Il, in North Korea in 2005. The younger Kim has had somewhat of a cooler relationship with his country's traditional ally, but he chose Beijing last March asSince then, he's also met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in a record three times and participated in the first two U.S.
At the same time, China has expressed wariness about North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons and has voted alongside the U.S. in enforcing international sanctions against the secretive, militarized state. Xi has welcomed Kim's campaign of international diplomacy, however, and has joined Russian President Vladimir Putin in calling for a"freeze-for-freeze" approach by which North Korea would formally suspend its nuclear testing in exchange for a pause on U.S.
Putin and Xi are also set to see Trump at the G20 summit later this month in Japan, where it is widely anticipated that the two leaders would try to improve their difficult ties with the U.S. But Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang told reporters Monday"that the U.S. side has expressed publicly on many occasions its hope to arrange a meeting between the two heads of state on the sidelines of the G20 Osaka Summit" but did not confirm if such a meeting will take place.
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