Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates met Xi Jinping on Friday, in one of the first contacts between a high-profile US business figure and China’s president in recent years amid rising geopolitical tensions.
The meeting, in which Xi referred to Gates as an “old friend”, came ahead of US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s expected visit this weekend, which was initially postponed in February by a dispute over a suspected Chinese spy balloon.
Xi noted that Gates was the first “American friend” he had met this year and stressed the importance of in-person exchanges to US-China relations.
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