Xi Jinping, China's president (left) and Joko Widodo, Indonesia's president during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders retreat in San Francisco, California, US, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. President Biden met Thursday with counterparts from South Korea and Japan, two top US allies, a day after his landmark summit with China's President Xi Jinping. - Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
SAN FRANCISCO: Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated that his country will stick to a path of peaceful development as he wrapped his first visit to the US in six years, having eased tensions between the world’s top two economies.
"The fundamental goal of China’s development is to improve the well-being of the Chinese people, not to replace anyone,” the state-run Xinhua News Agency cited him as saying in a Friday speech at the close of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco.
