The leaders of the two countries also agreed on cooperation in "energy transition and the development of new and renewable energy", a statement from the Indonesian government read.

"Certain people on the US side are jumping up and down, continuously rehashing the so-called 'mainland threat' or 'military pressure'," a Chinese government spokesperson told reporters on Wednesday (Apr 15).

The US sank an Iranian frigate in early March off Sri Lanka's southern coast, killing 104 sailors.

In 2024, Somali uploaded a video of himself twerking beside a statue commemorating Korean "comfort women", the euphemistic term for wartime sex slaves.

Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov reportedly said that President Vladimir Putin will visit China in the first half of the year.