Passengers pose with a model of a high-speed train at the Halim Station of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 28. As of April 27, the railway has transported 9 million passengers and operated 26,168 bullet train trips since its inauguration on Oct 17, 2023, according to the railway”s operator. XU QIN/XINHUA
When President Xi Jinping entered the front lawn of the parliament building in Jakarta on Oct 3, 2013, Marzuki Alie, then speaker of Indonesia’s House of Representatives, greeted him in Mandarin, saying “huanying”, or welcome.
Xi, during his first Southeast Asia visit as China’s top leader, had been invited to…
