Report of participation in climate summit in Glasgow comes amid criticism of Beijing’s latest net zero plans
China’s president, Xi Jinping, will appear at the Cop26 UN climate summit in Glasgow next week via video link, the Associated Press has reported citing China’s foreign ministry, after weeks of speculation over what role Xi might play in the meeting, which opens on Sunday.
Xi has not left China since last year, when his country was first engulfed in the deadly Covid outbreak. The foreign ministry separately said on Friday that Xi would take part in this weekend’s G20 leaders’ summit in Rome via video link.
