Talks cancelled because of time pressures after today’s ‘snap meeting’ on missiles in Poland, according to tweet from the Guardian’s deputy political editor.
“:”A scheduled meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was called off, prompting questions about bilateral ties between the two nations. Had it occurred, the meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit would have been the first in-person bilateral talks between the leaders of the two countries in five years. A Downing Street spokesperson said on Wednesday that the meeting has been cancelled due to “scheduling issues”. The Guardian’s deputy political editor Jessica Elgot tweeted that the meeting was cancelled “because of time pressures after the snap meeting this morning on the missiles in Poland”. The meeting was supposed to take place at around 3.30pm on Wednesday after the G20 summit on the Indonesian island of Bali officially ended.
