: Ukraine war, tensions with China loom over big Bali summit #IndiaNEWS #International Nusa Dua (Indonesia): A showdown between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin isnt happening, but the fallout

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Ukraine war, tensions with China loom over big Bali summit #IndiaNEWS #International
Nusa Dua (Indonesia): A showdown between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin isnt happening, but the fallout from Russias invasion of Ukraine and growing tensions between China and the West will be at the fore when leaders of the worlds biggest economies gather in tropical Bali this week.
The Group of 20 members begin talks on the Indonesian resort island Tuesday under the hopeful theme of “recover together, recover stronger. � While Putin is staying away, Biden will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and get to know new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Italys Giorgia Meloni.
The summits official priorities of health, sustainable energy and digital transformation are likely to be overshadowed by fears of a sputtering global economy and geopolitical tensions centered on the war in Ukraine.
The nearly nine-month-old conflict has disrupted trade in oil, natural gas and grain, and shifted much of the summits focus to food and energy security.
The U. S. And allies in Europe and Asia, meanwhile, increasingly are squaring off against a more assertive China, leaving emerging G-20 economies like India, Brazil and host Indonesia to walk a tightrope between bigger powers.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has tried to bridge rifts within the G-20 over the war in Ukraine. Widodo, also known as Jokowi, became the first Asian leader since the invasion to visit both Russia and Ukraine in the summer.
He invited President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, not a G-20 member, to join the summit. Zelenskyy is expected to participate, likely online.
“One of the priorities for Jokowi is to ease the tension of war and geopolitical risk,� said Bhima Yudhistira, director of the Center of Economic and Law Studies in Indonesias capital, Jakarta.
Last years G-20 summit in Rome was the first in-person gathering of members since the pandemic, though the leaders of Russia and China didnt attend.
This years event is bracketed by the United Nations climate conference in Egypt and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Cambodia, which Biden and some other G-20 leaders are attending, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Thailand right afterward.
The American president vowed to work with Southeast Asian nations on Saturday, saying “were going to build a better future that we all want to see� in a region where China is working to grow its influence.
One concrete question hanging over the Bali summit is whether Russia will agree to extend the U. N. Black Sea Grain Initiative, which is up for renewal Nov. 19.
The July deal allowed major global grain producer Ukraine to resume exports from ports that had been largely blocked for months because of the war.

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