Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the virtual climate summit hosted this week by Joe Biden, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday (April 21), as Sino-US tensions remain high.
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The Chinese head of state will deliver
"an important speech"
online from Beijing
, the ministry said, a few days after the two countries pledged to
"cooperate"
on climate change.