China News: Inspite of being present in South Africa, Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped the key meeting of Brics Business Forum which was held in Johannesburg
g20, or the united states, he we just want to organize ourselves. china s president xijinping is also attending the summit, and was expected to deliver a speech at the forum alongside his counterparts.he failed to show up and his commerce minister delivered xi s comments instead. joining me live now is susan thornton, former us acting assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs. oliver stuenkel, an international relations professor at the think tank fundacao getulio vargas. and katherine hadda, a visiting fellow at the center for strategic and international studies us india policy studies. great to have you all with me tonight. susan, that piece of news out of the summit, all the leaders speaking at this brics business forum except xi jinping, and questions being asked as to why, what do you make of this? irate asked as to why, what do you make of this? asked as to why, what do you make of this? we really don t
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Xi’s speech would have been his first public remarks delivered abroad this year. Prior to South Africa, the Chinese leader had spent just two days overseas in 2023, when he visited Russia.