Xi to attend Biden’s virtual climate summit in first meeting of two leaders.

BEIJING: China’s President Xi Jinping will attend a US-led climate change summit at the invitation of President Joe Biden, in the first meeting between the two leaders since the advent of the new US administration.

Biden has invited world leaders to join the two-day virtual summit, after bringing the US back into the 2015 Paris Agreement on cutting global carbon emissions.

In Alaska last month, US and Chinese officials held the first high-level in-person talks that bristled with rancour and yielded no diplomatic breakthroughs.

But the two countries have rediscovered a common interest in battling climate change.