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Jokowi, Xi embrace push for greater synergy
The two leaders agreed to leverage their “exemplary model of major developing countries seeking mutual benefit, win-win results, common development and South-South cooperation”.
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President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo (left) greets his host, Chinese President Xi Jinping, during their bilateral meeting at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, on July 26, 2022. The two leaders pledged to deepen economic cooperation that is mutually beneficial and of merit to the region and the world. (Presidential Secretariat's Press Bureau/Laily Rachev)
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resident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Chinese President Xi Jinping held wide-ranging talks on Tuesday that put their appetite for deeper bilateral relations and mutually beneficial cooperation on full display, amid efforts by the United States to warn the Indo-Pacific region that China was not expanding its influence “just for benign reasons”.
Jokowi and his presidential entourage were in the Chinese capital Beijing on Tuesday on the first stop of his three-day, three-nation tour of East Asia, where the name of the game is to expand largely economic cooperation with Indonesia’s “strategic” and “traditional” partners.
The President was the first foreign leader that China has hosted since the Winter Olympics earlier this year, on account of COVID-19 restrictions that have remained in place since the start of the pandemic, with Xi noting in his opening remarks to their in-person meeting that it proved “how close the relationship is between the two sides”.
The leaders exchanged niceties before the meeting continued behind closed doors at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, where Jokowi stayed on Monday night.
During the talks, the leaders said they were committed to strengthening economic cooperation in line with their mutual interests.
“China is Indonesia’s comprehensive strategic partner. We must fill this partnership with cooperation that mutually benefits both of our countries, as well as the region and the world,” Jokowi said in a jointly issued press statement.
Xi and his guest witnessed the signing of several cooperation documents in such areas as research and development of vaccine and genomics, green development, customs information exchange and enforcement, cyber security capacity building, marine development and the importation of Indonesian fruit products.
