Chinese President Xi Jinping is only two days outside the first half of this year. Except for the epidemic period, this is the shortest half a year when he has visited overseas since he served as President.
According to Bloomberg News on Friday (August 4), Xi Jinping visited Russia in March, which was the only foreign visit this year.
It is reported that the overseas schedule before the Xi Jinping's epidemic is quite different from now. At that time, no matter the number of visits or staying time, there were more than the US president.
According to the compilation and analysis of the Xi Jinping's abroad meeting, Xi Jinping visited an average of 14 times a year from 2013 to 2019.According to the Eurasian Group's compilation data, former US President Trump visited an average of 12 times a year during his tenure.
Now Xi Jinping is mainly entertaining foreign dignitaries in China.So far this year, he has met with representatives from 36 countries including France, Eritrea and the United States in Beijing.A few years before the outbreak, he received an average of 48 dignitaries per year.
In addition, Xi Jinping and foreign leaders have also decreased to hold video conferences, and only once this year has been with the Czech Republic.
Bloomberg reports that the decrease in contact with Xi Jinping with foreign leaders may affect the global influence of China and the United States.
Song Wenyi, a very resident researcher at the Global China Center of Washington's Atlantic Council, believes that Chinese leaders may now have more urgent things to deal with than foreign affairs, including domestic economic issues and personnel changes.
