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Chinese President Xi Jinping is not going to attend the G20 summit in New Delhi on September 9 and 10 — in what is going to be the most conspicuous and telling absence from the summit. The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Monday that Chinese Premier Li Qiang will attend the summit. Xi, who has been China’s President for a decade now, is going to miss the G20 summit for the second time. But the last time he skipped this important forum was in 2021, when Covid-19 pandemic was still at its peak, and the Chinese government’s hard “Zero COVID policy”...
