Mexico’s AMLO to Talk Fentanyl Crisis in First Meeting With China’s Xi
- Mexican leader to meet his China counterpart in San Francisco
- Bilateral comes as countries under pressure to tackle crisis
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping this week in their first encounter as both governments try to make progress in tackling the fentanyl crisis that’s plaguing North America.
AMLO, as the Mexican leader is known, will hold a bilateral with Xi on Nov. 16, a day before a separate meeting with US President Joe Biden, at the APEC summit in San Francisco, Foreign Affairs Minister Alicia Barcena told reporters Tuesday. Lopez Obrador will also meet Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the same event, she said.