Rishi Sunak's controversial meeting with the Chinese president canceled



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featuring the Chinese President has been canceled due to disruption caused by the summit in Indonesia after a missile strike in Poland.

Downing Street blamed the disruption of the schedule following the shock incident for ousting Xi's talks from the agenda. Prime Minister's Day, but declined to mention which side had canceled the meeting.

Plans for the assembly on the sidelines of the Bali summit, announced in the remaining minute on Tuesday, sparked alarm among China's conservative hawks, who feared that Mr. Sunak was getting soft on Beijing.

It became here after Mr. Sunak signaled that he could no longer press ahead with predecessor Liz Truss's plan to move China from a 'mission' to a 'chance', alongside Russia, as part of the professional assessment of priorities UK's defence, security and foreign cover.

Responding to deliberate information from the assembly, former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said he was 'involved' in that Sunak could be perceived as sensitive by Xi due to the advent that the UK has turned into a "drift towards appeasement with China".

And activist Luke de Pulford of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China has warned against giving Xi the clout that family members are returning to "traditional business" after years in

During the race Tory leadership in the summer, Mr Sunak named China as 'the most significant long-term threat to Britain and the world's monetary and national security' and promised more than a few steps to counter its effect.

But upon his arrival in Indonesia, he significantly reduced his rhetorician, stating that China has become ue "undoubtedly the greatest total state threat to our economic protection", but that in terms of national security it has become a "systemic enterprise" instead of a "risk".

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Sunak's efforts to reduce tensions with Beijing echoed Joe Biden's position during his first one-on-one meetings as president with Mr. Xi on Monday, in which he tried to position the relationship between their superpowers as one of opposition, not of war.

No 10 these days pointed out that political concerns had played into a role in the cancellation of the scheduled meeting.

The Prime Minister's legitimate spokesman said there were significant adjustments to schedules on all aspects after Mr Biden called an impromptu meeting of NATO and G7 leaders in Bali in response to the Polish missile.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said she had "no statistics to share" regarding the reasons behind the cancellation.

The spokesperson said "China is determined to run together with the UK to promote the sound and healthy development of the members of the Sino-British family on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual gain, and hopes that the UK Uni will meet China halfway."