G20 Summit: Five reasons why China's Xi Jinping is not visiting India
Hindustan TimesPresident Xi Jinping is not coming to India to attend this week’s Group of 20 or G20 Summit and instead sending his Premier Li Qiang to represent China at the September 9-10 event to be held in Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping While Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning declined to answer the reason behind Xi Jinping's decision to skip the G20 meeting, it's out in the open that relations between China and India have grown frosty over their disputed border. At the recently concluded BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a brief interaction with Xi wherein he had expressed grave concern over the situation along the Line of Actual Control. Wen-Ti Sung, political scientist at the Australian National University, told news agency Reuters that, "Xi's skipping the West-heavy club of G20 right after attending the BRICS summit may be a visual illustration of Xi's narrative of 'East is rising, and the West is falling', as well as showing solidarity with Russia's President Putin who is also not attending."