Xi Jinping and Sultan Haitham of Oman attend a cooperation-document signing, including a currency-swap agreement.
Xinhua flashed on 2 November that President Xi Jinping and Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik of Oman, who is on a state visit to China, attended a signing ceremony of cooperation documents in Beijing that day. People's Daily Online and China News Service carried the flash; China Daily and Xinhua English reported the same. The Arabian Stories, citing the Oman News Agency, said Haitham and Xi witnessed the signing of a currency-swap agreement between the Central Bank of Oman and the People's Bank of China, plus 14 memoranda and protocols covering green investment, artificial intelligence, space science and BeiDou applications, central-bank digital currencies, industrial and supply-chain investment, securities and futures regulatory cooperation, data and the digital economy, inspection and quarantine for dried dates exported to China, media and news, science and technology, competition protection, protected natural areas and vegetation, and historical documentation and archives; the swap's size and tenor were not disclosed. The talks and welcome ceremony were published at 12:00 today (chinaday.news/i/72). A Li Qiang meeting wire had still not appeared and remains to be followed.
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