Xi Jinping will miss the G20 New Delhi summit, the reason is unknown
04.09.2023
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday (September 4) that Premier Li Qiang of the State Council of China was invited to attend the eighteenth summit of the G20 leaders in New Delhi, India from September 9 to 10. Deutsche News Agency commented that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s absence from the G20 summit will bring more disturbances to the already tense Sino-Indian relations.
(Deutsche Welle Chinese website) As beforeoutside speculation,Chinese PresidentXi JinpingWill not travel to India to attend the upcoming G20 summit this weekend. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning announced on Monday (September 4) that “At the invitation of the Government of the Republic of India, Chinese Premier Li Qiang will attend the G20 Summit held in New Delhi, India from September 9th to 10th.” Eighteenth Summit”. At the regular press conference, a reporter asked,Why President Xi Jinping Didn’t Attend the Summit in Person? Mao Ning did not respond to this explanation.
The eighteenth G20 summit will be held in New Delhi, the capital of India, from September 9th to 10th.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang attended the World Economic Forum in Tianjin in June.
Deutsche News Agency pointed out that this will be the first time that the Chinese President will not attend the G20 summit. During the new crown epidemic, although Xi Jinping did not go to Rome in person, he participated in the summit via video connection.
Relations between India, the summit host, and neighboring China have been strained in recent years. There has been a territorial dispute between the two countries for decades. In June 2020, clashes between the armies of the two countries broke out in the Galwan Valley, causing casualties.
On August 28 this year, the website of the Ministry of Natural Resources of China releasedNew map of China, the map clearly shows that Arunachal Pradesh and Doklam Plateau, which are disputed by India and China, and Aksai Chin, which is controlled by China, are all included in China, causing strong protests from the Indian side.indian foreign ministerJason Su(Jaishankar Subhramanyam) refuted China’s territorial claims in a television interview. He said: “Making absurd claims to Indian territory does not mean that it is Chinese territory.” Objections to sovereignty claims over Indian territory.
India recently overtook China to become the world’s most populous country, and the two countries are also rivals in technology, space exploration and global trade. India and China have also expelled each other’s journalists.
Xi’s absence from New Delhi means that the leader of an important member state is absent from the summit. Some observers see Xi’s decision as a slap in the face for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.In addition, there will be no confrontation between US President Biden and Xi Jinping during the summit.sideline interaction. The United States and China have long been made increasingly difficult by opposing economic interests and geopolitical complications surrounding the Ukraine war. Relations between the two countries are still at historic lows, although several government officials, including U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, have visited Beijing this year.
Lavrov will replace Putin at the G20 summit in New Delhi.
Beyond that, Russian aggression in Ukraine will remain a key topic at the G20 summit in New Delhi, and a thorny one for Xi. China and Russia have formed an important partnership. In February of this year, China put forward a 12-point position statement on “A Political Solution to the Ukraine Crisis”. From the perspective of the West, China’s proposed peace plan is not without controversy. In July, Kremlin foreign policy advisor Yury Ushakov said that at the invitation of Xi Jinping, who visited Moscow in March last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to visit China during the Belt and Road Summit in October. However, China’s foreign ministry has yet to confirm this claim.
Putin participated in the BRICS summit held in South Africa via video in August this year. Russia has previously announced that Putin will not attend the G20 summit in New Delhi, and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov will attend on his behalf.
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(German News Agency, Associated Press)
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