FILE PHOTO: Chinese language President Xi Jinping attends the plenary session of the 2023 BRICS Summit on the Sandton Conference Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 23, 2023. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/Pool by way of REUTERS/File Picture
President Xi “will attend the opening ceremony of the nineteenth Asian Video games in Hangzhou from September 22 to 23, and maintain a welcome banquet and bilateral actions for international leaders visiting China”, state broadcaster CCTV mentioned.
International company in attendance will embrace Assad — on his first go to to China since warfare erupted in Syria in 2011 — in addition to leaders from ally Cambodia, Kuwait, and Nepal, amongst others, CCTV mentioned.
The Video games had been purported to happen final September however had been postponed due to China’s strict zero-Covid regime, earlier than the ruling Communist Celebration abruptly deserted the coverage.
The nineteenth version of the Video games, which had been first held in New Delhi in 1951, brings collectively athletes from 45 international locations and territories throughout Asia and the Center East.