Chinese Premier Li Qiang will pay an official visit to Indonesia from May 24 to 26 at the invitation of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday.
Following his visit to Indonesia, Premier Li will attend the inaugural ASEAN-GCC-China Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from May 26 to 28. The summit is being held at the invitation of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, the current rotating chair of ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations). In Indonesia, Premier Li is scheduled to hold talks with President Prabowo and other Indonesian leaders, focusing on deepening high-level, all-round strategic cooperation. He will also participate in events involving local business representatives. Mao stated that China aims to further promote its traditional friendship with Indonesia, enhance solidarity and cooperation, and strengthen collaboration across the “five pillars”: politics, economy, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, maritime affairs, and security. She added that both nations, as they pursue their respective modernization paths, are expected to continuously enrich the concept of the China-Indonesia community with a shared future and make greater contributions to regional and global peace, stability, development, and prosperity. Regarding the upcoming ASEAN-GCC-China Summit, Mao emphasized that ASEAN and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are emerging economies and key members of the Global South, as well as important partners in the Belt and Road Initiative. She noted that China supports Malaysia’s initiative to host the summit. “In the current international and regional context, it is of great significance for the three parties to jointly discuss plans for solidarity, cooperation, development, and prosperity, and to advance mutually beneficial cross-regional collaboration,” Mao said. China looks forward to expanding practical cooperation with ASEAN and GCC countries in various sectors, leveraging their complementary strengths, achieving win-win outcomes, and jointly upholding the multilateral trading system while protecting the shared interests of the Global South, she added.
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