BEIJING – China offered to buy more goods from Brunei and to encourage investment in the Islamic sultanate as President Xi Jinping lauded relations with the tiny nation that have centred more on economics than territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
In his meeting with Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah in San Francisco on Thursday, Xi said China would welcome more exports from Brunei, tell more Chinese enterprises to set up shop in the Southeast Asian country, and expand cooperation in areas such as food security, according to Chinese state media.
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