US President Joe Biden is “disappointed” that Chinese President Xi Jinping will not be attending the G20 Summit in New Delhi this week, but is still looking forward to his trip to India.
The White House announced on Friday that President Joe Biden would travel to India on September 7 for participation in the G20 Summit and hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 8 on the margins of the historic conference.
On September 9 and 10, 2018, India will host the annual summit of the G20 in New Delhi as the group’s current president.
On Sunday, before leaving for his trip, reporters asked President Biden if he was excited to visit India and Vietnam.
I am, Biden said in response.
He lamented that Chinese President Xi had decided against traveling to New Delhi to participate in the conference.
I’m disappointed, but I’m going to get to see him, Biden remarked in response to a question.
Vice President Biden will be among the more than two dozen world leaders present at Prime Minister Modi’s G20 Summit in New Delhi.
At the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali in November 2022, Biden and Xi made a commitment to reopen lines of communication in an effort to prevent mounting tensions from escalating into outright conflict.
Since Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, that was their sole face-to-face encounter.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing confirmed on Monday that President Xi would not be leading the Chinese delegation to this week’s G20 Summit in New Delhi.
Once Premier Li returns from the East Asia conference in Jakarta, he will immediately depart for India. President Xi of China skipped the G20 conference in Italy in 2021 because of the country’s COVID-19 limitations.
Members of the G20 who have confirmed their attendance include Vice President Joe Biden of the United States, President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil.
On September 10th, Brazilian President Lula will take over the G20 presidency from Modi.
As of the first of December, Brazil will officially take over as the G20’s chair.
About two-thirds of the world’s population and 85 percent of global GDP are located in the countries that make up the G20.
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, the US, and the European Union (EU) are all part of this grouping.
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