G20 Summit News: Is India devaluing Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin's absence from meet?
Premier Li Qiang will be representing China during the G20 meet set to be held between 9-10 September in national capital Delhi. Further, Russia's President Vladimir Putin has also decided to skip the G20 Summit meet in Delhi.
The G20 Summit meet is a gathering of world‘s biggest economies, and this being skipped by powerful economy like China, and a country's premiere engulfed in war with Ukraine is likely to be seen as a setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The G20 Summit meet is PM Narendra Modi's tool to showcase India's projected geopolitical clout at a time when he has emphasised on ‘India being the growing economy’ an using the same ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections.
India's Union Minister for External Affairs S Jaishankar had, in an interview with news agency ANI, said absence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of Twenty summit would not detract from its importance. “There have been presidents to prime ministers, who for whatever reason, have chosen not to come themselves.
That country and that country’s position is obviously reflected by whoever is the representative on that occasion." he had said in the interview with ANI. China's XI Jinping skipping the meet of G20 Summit, despite having several talks with PM Modi on side-lines of international summit, which includes the recently concluded BRICS summit, and the G-20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia last year, could potentially aggravate tensions with India as the two nuclear-armed neighbours are locked in a border dispute.
The Kremlin earlier said Putin is too “busy" to attend the G-20 summit and his main focus for now is overseeing Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has gone on for more than a year. Putin had in a
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