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Xinhua China-related world news summary at 1030 GMT, Sept. 2

Xinhua, September 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo, with the two leaders agreeing to deepen cooperation in trade, finance, infrastructure and other areas.

Widodo is here to attend the G20 summit on Sept. 4-5. (China-Indonesia-Top Meeting)

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LONDON -- Chinese Ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming on Thursday urged his country and Britain to enhance cooperation in an array of areas ranging from infrastructure investment to international financial framework and build stronger political mutual trust.

In a signed article published by the Daily Telegraph, Liu said that China and Britain can enhance cooperation in a number of fields, from infrastructure investment and international financial framework, to cooperation on taxation, anti-corruption and anti-microbial resistance. (Britain-China-Investment)

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BRUSSELS -- In an economy where global value chains are increasingly pervasive, the upcoming G20 summit in China needs to work for an optimal allocation of the key factors of production to invigorate the world economy, a foreign policy expert told Xinhua in a recent interview.

Balazs Ujvari, research fellow at the Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations, said structural reform and policy coherence in the "trade-investment nexus" is more important than ever, facing the sluggish growth in cross-border trade and investment flows. (EU-China-Economy)

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NAY PYI TAW -- The Chinese Embassy in Myanmar and the Ruili Municipality of China's Yunnan Province on Thursday donated 100 million kyats (about 82,000 U.S. dollars) to Myanmar for renovation of quick-damaged pagodas in the country's Bagan.

Myanmar's Minister of Religious Affairs and Culture Thura U Aung Ko thanked China for the donation, saying that as a traditionally good neighbor, China provided assistance to Myanmar when Myanmar is hit by natural disasters. (Myanmar-China-Aid) Endi