Xi Jinping hosts over a dozen world leaders in Beijing this year as China seeks to shift global power balance
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Yu-chen Li, Amy Hawkins, Alastair McCready
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The article reports on Chinese President Xi Jinping's diplomatic strategy of hosting numerous world leaders in Beijing throughout the year, including Bangladesh's new prime minister Tarique Rahman and Myanmar's Min Aung Hlaing. It highlights Xi's efforts to build influence, expand economic ties, and promote an alternative world order that shifts power away from the West, aided by perceived unpredictability in US foreign policy. The piece notes that more than a dozen world leaders have visited China this year for meetings.
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Xi's meeting with Tarique Rahman comes less than two weeks after the Chinese leader welcomed Myanmar's military chief-turned-president, Min Aung Hlaing, in Beijing.
China's leader wants to promote his alternative to the current world order, and his efforts are being assisted by a capricious US
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