{"id":58192,"date":"2023-09-08T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T05:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/08\/why-is-xi-jinping-missing-the-g20"},"modified":"2023-09-08T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T05:45:47","slug":"why-is-xi-jinping-missing-the-g20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58192","title":{"rendered":"Why is Xi Jinping missing the G20?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s leader will not attend the meeting in Delhi, prompting speculation over tensions with India, pressing domestic issues and a tactical retreat<\/p>\n<p>The decision of Xi Jinping to not attend this weekend\u2019s G20 meeting has sparked rampant speculation. Since coming to power in 2013, Xi has attended every G20 meeting \u2013 either in person or virtually \u2013 but on Monday China\u2019s foreign ministry revealed the premier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/04\/china-signals-xi-jinping-will-not-attend-g20-summit-in-india\">Li Qiang, would be leading the delegation instead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>China is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/30\/western-politicians-face-tough-balancing-act-on-visits-to-beijing\">a crucial global player<\/a> and its leader\u2019s absence has raised eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/08\/why-is-xi-jinping-missing-the-g20\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s leader will not attend the meeting in Delhi, prompting speculation over tensions with India, pressing domestic issues and a tactical retreatThe decision of Xi Jinping to not attend this weekend\u2019s G20 meeting has sparked rampant speculation. Sin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,62,49],"tags":[497],"class_list":["post-58192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-india","category-xi-jinping","tag-g20"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58193,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58192\/revisions\/58193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}