BALI, Indonesia — Rishi Sunak will invite Xi Jinping to collaborate more closely on global challenges in the first meeting between a British prime minister and Chinese president in nearly five years.
Sunak and Xi will hold a bilateral meeting Wednesday on the margins of the G20 leaders’ summit in Bali.
Ahead of the meeting — confirmed only 24 hours before it was due to take place — Downing Street insisted it was “clear-eyed in how we approach our relationship with China”.
The prime minister’s spokesman said there was a need “for China and the U.K. to establish a frank and constructive relationship”, but stressed that “the challenges posed by China are systemic” and “long-term”.
The two leaders are likely to discuss the war in Ukraine, energy security and climate change among other issues, No. 10 said....
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