(Beijing / New Delhi Composite Electric) China announced that Prime Minister Li Qiang will lead the group to attend the Twenty Group (G20) Leadership Summit held in India this week, indicating that Chinese officials will not attend the meeting.This means whether Xi Bai will appear in New Delhi, and it also highlights the tightness of China -India relations.
The two -day summit will be opened on Saturday (September 9).U.S. President Biden had previously determined to attend the summit. People originally expected that the leaders of China and the United States would meet at the summit to further stabilize the relationship between trade and geopolitical tensions.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning Monday (4th) announced at a regular press conference held in Beijing that Li Qiang will lead his delegation to New Delhi to attend the G20 Leader Summit.
Asked whether this means that the official Chinese officials did not attend the summit and why the Chinese official did not attend the summit, Mao Ning did not answer directly. It only said that the G20 is the "main forum of international economic cooperation. China has always attached great importance to and actively participated in related activities."Essence
Reuters pointed out that Li Qiang group means that Chinese officials will almost definitely not attend, because they will not go abroad with the prime minister at the same time, let alone attend the same event.Reuters first reported last week that Chinese officials may be absent from the summit and sent Li Qiang to attend.
Bayeng Sunday (3rd) said in an interview that he was disappointed with the Chinese official's not attending the summit, but it showed that he met with Chinese officials.Biden did not further explain, but the leaders of China and the United States will have the opportunity to meet at the Asia -Pacific Economic Cooperation Organization (APEC) summit held in San Francisco in November.
Biden's official meeting with Chinese officials was during the G20 Summit of Bali Island last November.
Since the first G20 summit in 2008, this is the first absence.Previously, only in 2020 and 2021, which was out of the crown disease, he attended the summit in person, and Chinese officials attended the video at the time.
Russian President Putin was wanted by the International Criminal Court for suspected of committing war in Ukraine, so he will also absence the New Delhi Summit.
Other leaders who have decided to attend include German Prime Minister Tonus, French President Macron, and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Wenxiong.
Some analysts believe that China's official absence of the New Delhi Summit may be intentionally left in the host, India.They believe that this may be a signal that China is unwilling to help India, the fastest growing major economy to enhance influence at the moment when its own economy slows down.
Song Wenyi, a political scientist of the National University of Australia, pointed out that Chinese officials participated in the BRICS leadership meeting held in South Africa last month, but this time it skipped the Western G20 summit. "This may be the official Chinese ''The intuitive manifestation of the rise of the East and the decline of the West, but also in order to support Putin. "
Although geopolitical friction continues to trouble the progress of the G20 summit, Amitabh Kant, a senior Indian official who is responsible for planning the summit, told the Financial Times that the participating countries may still reach an agreement on the final communiqué.He said that New Delhi's goal was to promote the G20 to reach a consensus on the leadership declaration, including the wording of the Russian and Ukraine war between China and Russia.
