Pak Sahafat – Before the official announcement of the Chinese President’s absence, the Indian media wrote with confidence that he would attend the G20 meeting in New Delhi. Now, Hindustan Times has reported on the reasons for Xi Jinping’s absence in this meeting.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency’s report on Tuesday, Hindustan Times, in a report, examined the reasons for the absence of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
This year, the G20 summit will be held in New Delhi from September 8 to 10. The Chinese president was also one of the important and expected officials whose absence was confirmed yesterday by the spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry and Chinese Premier Li Qiang.
This media wrote: While Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning refused to answer about Xi Jinping’s decision to cancel the G20 meeting, it is clear that relations between China and India have cooled again over the disputed border.
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The possible reason for Xi Jinping not attending the summit could be as follows:
First, Beijing recently published a map that it called the “Standard Map” and this map made territorial claims on Arunachal Pradesh, Aksai China, as well as Taiwan and the South China Sea. China publishes the standard map every year, but this is the first time that India has raised strong objections to issues related to the map and rejected China’s claims. The timing of the map’s release was a bit of a surprise, as it was just days before the G20 summit. At the recently concluded BRICS summit in Johannesburg, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a brief conversation with Xi in which he expressed his grave concern over the situation along the Line of Actual Control (the disputed border between India and China). Did
Second, relations between China and India have cooled over their disputed border. Three years ago, tensions led to clashes in the Ladakh region in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed. The conflict has turned into a prolonged standoff in the rugged mountainous region, where each side has deployed tens of thousands of troops backed by artillery, tanks and fighter jets.
The third point is the increasing challenges and tensions over India’s growing trade and strategic relations with China’s main rival, the United States. On the other hand, both India and China have expelled journalists from the other side.
Wen Ti Song, a professor of political science at the Australian National University, told Reuters news agency: Xi Jinping’s passing through the powerful G20 Western Alliance meeting right after participating in the BRICS summit may be a message from Xi Jinping’s narrative that says: “The power of the East is rising” and to say that the West is falling, and also to show solidarity with Russian President Putin, who is also not participating in the meeting.
Alfred Wu, an associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, said Xi Jinping may be reluctant to travel abroad given his focus on domestic issues.
Wu added: Xi Jinping is setting an agenda based on his main concern, national security, and he should stay in China, instead he will force foreign heads of state to meet with him.