# Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a veiled swipe at the United States as he criticized “bullying practices” and cast his country as a new leader of world governance, at a time when President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is upending the globe. The meeting is China’s biggest diplomatic event of the year, with political heavyweights including the leaders of Russia, India and Turkey attending. It is the leaders’ first opportunity to meet since Vladimir Putin’s summit with Trump in Alaska, and comes as Putin resists Western pressure to end the war in Ukraine.
Xi and Putin stand shoulder to shoulder as China casts itself as an alternative global leader