Indonesia's Widodo heads to China on Monday (July 25) to meet Xi on rare trip before G20

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo, left, speaks to China's President Xi Jinping during a family photo session in front of Osaka Castle at the G-20 summit, on June 28, 2019, in Osaka, Japan. President Widodo was heading to Beijing on Monday, July 25, for a rare visit by a foreign leader under China's strict COVID-19 protocols and ahead of what could be the first overseas trip by Chinese President Xi since the start of the pandemic more than two years ago. - AP

BEIJING, JUly 25 (AP): Indonesian President Joko Widodo was heading to Beijing on Monday for a rare visit by a foreign leader under China's strict Covid-19 protocols and ahead of what could be the first overseas trip by Chinese President Xi Jinping since the start of the pandemic more than two years ago.

Widodo, host of the Group of 20 summit in mid-November, will meet Xi and Premier Li Keqiang (July 26) on Tuesday. He will hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on Wednesday and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul on Thursday, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry said.