With Xi and Putin absent, Biden steps into the power void to woo allies at G20


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NEW DELHI — If showing up is one of life’s basic tenets, President Joe Biden may have one-upped his rivals the moment he stepped off Air Force One and set foot on Indian soil. The leaders of America’s two main geopolitical foes, China and Russia, stayed home as the world’s wealthiest countries met this week for the Group of 20 summit in New Delhi — a point that Biden administration officials have been happy to emphasize. Biden aims to create a counterweight to Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific region, while also stepping up pressure on Russia to end its grinding...