Xi Jinping, the President of China is not expected to attend next week’s G20 summit which will be held in India, and will send Premier Li Qiang instead of him, a senior EU official said on Thursday.
The official told reporters in Brussels ahead of the September 9-10 summit in New Delhi that My latest information… was that Xi didn’t plan to travel to India, it would be the prime minister, Li Qiang.
Chinese Xi and Indian PM Modi had face-to-face conversations at the BRICS group summit in South Africa last week, but tensions stay heightened between the two Asian giants.
Dehli issued Beijing a “strong protest” on Tuesday after an official map published by China seemed to apply a claim to a big tract of land in the Himalayas over which India declares authority.
European officials expect the G20 summit in New Delhi will be a chance to lobby dominions like India and China to agree stronger objection of fellow BRICS member Russia in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
