US President Joe Biden will attend G20 Summit in New Delhi from September 7-10 and hold bilateral talks with PM Modi on September 8, focusing on multilateral development bank reforms and climate action.
India hosts the G20 summit as a platform to assert its global economic influence and address pressing international issues.
The Kremlin’s pressure-point strategy to undermine the West.
The Chinese leader’s decision, if confirmed, comes amid rising tensions between India and China.
A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown apartment building mainly occupied by homeless people and squatters in Johannesburg early Thursday, leaving at least 74 dead, officials said.
Last week, India and China offered different characterisations of a conversation between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Xi on the margins of the Brics Summit in Johannesburg
Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to skip the G20 summit in India, with Premier Li Qiang attending as Beijing’s representative. The summit was seen as a potential opportunity for Xi to engage with US President Joe Biden.
In China, two foreign diplomats and a government official from another G20 country said that Xi will likely not be travelling for the summit.
China’s ‘standard map’ sparks diplomatic backlash from Malaysia and India over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
