16.11.22_Editorial_

Xi Jinping’s schedule at the G20 meeting in Bali was ambitious. Yesterday alone, he met with the leaders of Australia, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy for bilateral talks. As Michael Radunski writes in his article on the summit, China’s president clearly wants to return to the pre-pandemic days. By the beginning of 2020, Xi had visited so many countries in such a short time that he eclipsed every other Chinese head of state before him. He even paid a visit to small island nations like Fiji. Party documents say that Xi believes a „period of strategic opportunism“ has dawned. He must make up more diplomatic ground than ever before to achieve his foreign policy goals. In doing so, he is also relying on compromise instead of confrontation.