Xi, Putin to Attend November G-20 Summit in Bali: Indonesian President’s Adviser

Xi, Putin to Attend November G-20 Summit in Bali: Indonesian President’s Adviser
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a welcoming ceremony at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of State in Qingdao, China, on June 10, 2018. Sergei Guneyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend November’s Group of Twenty (G-20) summit on the resort island of Bali, a longtime adviser to the Indonesian president said on Aug. 19.

“Jokowi told me that Xi and Putin are both planning to attend in Bali,” Andi Widjajanto, who heads the National Resilience Institute and is a former cabinet secretary and unofficial adviser to President Joko Widodo, who is known as Jokowi, told Reuters.