China's official Monday (September 4) announced that Prime Minister Li Qiang will go to New Delhi, India this weekend to attend the Leadership Summit of the G20 (G20) Leadership.It has been reported before that Chinese officials may not participate in the G20 this year, and the boots have finally landed.
G20 since the summit for the first time in 2008, the Chinese head of state has hardly missed any summit, and even through the video during the epidemic period in 2020 and 2021.
After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012, Beijing attaches great importance to global speech and actively promotes the Chinese agenda through international conferences.In particular, the United States frequently "retired" internationally during the last President Trump's administration, leaving room for China, which was eager to exert greater influence. Chinese leaders' appearances in international multilateral occasions are very high.
Russia, which has been evil in the West, has announced that President Putin will not go to New Delhi to attend the meeting.Today, Beijing is rarely decided to send the prime minister to attend, which is a bit surprising.For such an international stage, the head of the head of any country is attending or not attending, and the signal is released.Some Indian scholars believe that Chinese officials do not want to go to India, and they do not want to give India, and they must be left out of the Indian Prime Minister Modi who has a home advantage to exert its influence.
Beijing did not explain the reason why Chinese officials did not participate in the New Delhi Summit, but the tension between China and the host country was believed to be the most important background of the Chinese head of state without attending the G20 Summit.
China -India has a profound difference on the border issue. After the conflict between the La Wan River Valley in June 2020, the relationship between the two countries became more tense.Although the two sides reduce the risk of conflict through multiple rounds of military talks, due to the significant differences in the positions of viewing and resolving border disputes, the progress of these talks is slow and it is difficult to fundamentally resolve the dispute.
On the 28th of last month, the Ministry of Natural Resources of China released a new version of the map to reiterate the claims of sovereignty over disputed territories.The next day, India's strong protest of the map made controversial Arunechal and the Aksaichin Plateau as Chinese territory, and described Beijing's move "absurdity".
The contradiction between China and India has spread to investment, technology and other fields in recent years, and even spread to the media. The occurrence of the two parties forced the reporters of the other country to leave the country by refusing a reporter's visa.The contradiction between the two sides is catalyzed in the environment of Sino -US competition. For example, India's deep participation in the US -Japan -India -Australian Quartet Safety Dialogue (QUAD) is regarded by Beijing as helping the United States to curb China.
During the BRICS Summit held at Johannesburg, South Africa at the end of last month, China -India's leaders did not formally meet and only talked in the meeting.Indian officials said that Modi proposed concerns about the border disputes in the conversation, and both sides agreed to instruct relevant officials to accelerate the resolution of the dispute.The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that the reporter asked the reporter after reporting from foreign media reports.The contact at the BRICS Summit at the BRICS Summit is in sharp contrast to the high -profile meeting between Chinese officials and other participating leaders. It also shows that the current relationship between China and India is very sensitive and subtle.
China -Russia's heads of state failed to attend, and China had a tense relationship with the host country. In addition, the Russian and Ukraine War was deadlocked. It is estimated that the New Delhi G20 is difficult to reach a consensus.A person familiar with the matter revealed that the G20 is likely not to have a joint communiqué because China has stated that the content of emerging market debt and condemning Russia to launch the Ukraine War in the draft of the bulletin.In fact, during the rotating chairman of India, many conferences such as energy transformation conferences, financial ministers, and foreign ministers conferences caused joint communiqué abortion due to unable to reach consensus from various countries.
The current situation, further highlights the summit of the G20, a summit born in 2008 due to the 2008 global financial crisis, because the cracks between member states are becoming more and more difficult to meet, facing greater challenges.But having said that, the main value of the G20 is not in the meeting itself, because its influence on the global economic and political agenda itself is very limited. More importantly, it provides diplomatic opportunities for members of the members during the meeting.
The reason why the outside world cares about whether Chinese officials attend the meeting is also because this is one of the windows that may meet before the end of this year.In the past three months, many senior American officials including U.S. Secretary of State Brills, Treasury Secretary Yellen, Climate Special Envoy Kerry, and Commercial Minister of Commerce Raymond have successively visited China, raising the expectations of the outside world's first meeting.After the Chinese official may not attend the G20 summit, the US President Biden, who has been sure to attend the meeting, expressed disappointment, but still emphasized that there is still a chance to see Chinese officials.
The first occasion of China and the United States may be the Asia -Pacific Economic Cooperation Organization (APEC) summit held in San Francisco in November.However, the United States may refuse to invite the Hong Kong Chief Executive Lijia Super Counter, and it is expected that it will become a factor that affects Beijing's decision to go to the United States.Observer also pointed out that some recent signs show that Beijing has become increasingly not interested in dealing with the United States.China ’s Ministry of National Security issued a post on WeChat public account on Monday to attack the United States’ “new bottle of old wine” to China ’s strategy, and even shouted directly,“ To truly realize ’from‘ from Bali to San Francisco ’, the United States needs to come up with enough sincerity.”
Compared with China -India relations, relations with the United States are the top priorities of Beijing diplomatic work. China and the United States can not meet in the G20 for the first time. Theoretically, the opportunity for the two to meet with APEC.However, the contradictions between China and the United States are deeper than China -India, more problems, and more complicated. Whether the two sides can create a suitable atmosphere for the head of state for more than two months. It is really hard to say now.
