Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin jumped on Sunday 6 July 17. Brics summit in Brazil Rio de Janeiro.
While Xi Jinping sent China PM Li Qiang to participate in the summit; Vladimir Putin participates online for arrests from the International Criminal Court.
As a member of the ICC, Brazil would be legally obliged to arrest Putin if he stood on his territory. But why was Xi Jinping missing?
Chinese economic challenges in focus
Xi JinPing avoids the Rio de Janeiro summit to focus on the management of China’s economic challenges.
According to CNN, China is struggling with steep economic challenges in the middle of the ongoing business friction with the US, while its leaders are busy mapping the course for five years before the key political conclave expected this year, and XI may prefer domestic planning over international travel.
Brian Wong, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, said CNN that the sending Li Qiang should not be considered a diplomatic downgrade. “There is much in Brics+ that is suitable for looking at XI foreign policy,” he said.
The absence of China comes in the middle of the BRICS expansion
For the first time in more than one decade of the XI government, he was missing a bric, which owes an abbreviation to the early members of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and since 2024 he has spread to Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Iran.
Now 11 members have more than doubled. Some new members put fresh divisions in Bric, which have already fought for cohesion and divided between democracy and autocracy, said financial times.
Faux Pas Brazil First Lady in absence?
According to The Times, another option for Xi Jinping would skip the Brics summit that the Chinese leader was dissatisfied with the first lady Brazil Rosangel Lula da Silva after an extraordinary turnover of events a month ago in Beijing.
XI, however, officially did not state the reason for his absence.
During the state visit to China, Brazilian President Lula and the first lady Janja attended a banquet with Xi Jinping. Just before the dessert, the first lady raised her hand and addressed XI, which was the “unusual turning point” that The Times informed.
Reportedly, it was critical of the Chinese social media society Tiktok, whose algorithm, as she claimed, preferred right -wing opinions and was potentially harmful to children.
Livemint does not approve of the claim.
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