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Xinhua China-related world news summary at 0900 GMT, Aug. 9

Xinhua, August 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

China's role in promoting global economic growth is vital, an Italian economic expert told Xinhua in context of the forthcoming G20 summit to be held in Hangzhou, China.

The summit, from September 4 to 5, is the first ever to be hosted in China. (G20-China-Expert)

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BEIJING -- Less than one month before the kickoff of a Group of 20 (G20) summit, G20 countries are envisioning global economic recovery through pro-growth strategies and innovation.

Since China took over the G20 presidency on Dec. 1, 2015, the country has hosted a series of high-level meetings to set the stage for the summit, which is scheduled for Sept. 4-5 in Hangzhou, the capital city of east China's Zhejiang Province. (G20-Global Economy)

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BEIJING -- A training course for senior foreign police officers on UN peacekeeping missions started in Beijing on Monday.

It is the first time China's Ministry of Public Security and the UN have cooperated in this way. The course focuses on passing on China's practical experience. (China-UN-Police)

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BUENOS AIRES -- Ties with China are "essential" to Argentina and the two sides will further mutual trust through Group of 20 (G20) summit in Hangzhou next month, according to an Argentine editoral on Monday.

Argentine leaders, including President Mauricio Macri, have vowed to bolster ties with China and increase bilateral trade, wrote Lautaro Rubbi, a teacher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Argentine University of Business (UADE), in an editorial published on Monday in the trade-focused daily Cronista Comercial. (Argentina-China-ties)

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BEIJING -- U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday played the China-bashing card once again in his latest attempt to rectify his falling popularity. The inflammatory rhetoric, however, is dangerous and damaging and offers nothing substantive in way of improving relations with China.

In a speech in Detroit that outlined his economic prescription for America's economic headaches, Trump alleged that China "breaks the rules in every way imaginable" when trading with the United States, and "is responsible for nearly half of our entire trade deficit." (US-Trump-China) Endi