China’s Xi to Skip UN Meeting During US Trip, Politico Says (1)

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will forgo a stop in New York to address the UN General Assembly during a trip to the US next month to meet President Donald Trump, Politico reported. Politico cited four people familiar with the matter whom it didn’t identify. Xi plans to visit the US for three days, meeting Trump on Sept. 24, one of the people said. Arrangements for China’s participation in the UN General Assembly event will be announced in due course, a spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry in Beijing said in a statement. There’d been speculation that Xi would …