Chinese President Xi Jinping may distance from the BRICS summit to be held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil next month. If this happens, this will be his first absence in the summit since assuming the presidency 12 years ago. According to a report by South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, Jinping will not attend the BRICS summit in Brazil.
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Chinese Prime Minister Lee Kiang will participate in the summit to be held on July 6-7 in place of President Jinping. According to the report, a state dinner is being organized for Prime Minister Narendra Modi during this period. It is also being speculated that the Chinese leaders are angry with the state dinner organized for Prime Minister Modi after the summit by Brazilian President Lewis Eneasio Lula Da Silva and that is why he is no longer like the schedule of BRICS Summit, which he has made a distance from the summit.
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BRICS includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea. The group also includes five additional members Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Last year, the BRICS summit held in Kazan, Russia became important, as PM Modi and Jinping met there, causing warmth in the cool relationship for four years in bilateral relations due to the deadlock in eastern Ladakh.
Jinping will meet in SCO?
After this meeting, both sides agreed to revive bilateral talks. After the Modi-Jinping talks, both sides have held several meetings in the last few months to normalize bilateral relations. If Jinping does not attend the summit in Rio de Janeiro, then the next chance of Jinping-Modi meeting may be a SCO summit to be held in China, provided Prime Minister Modi participate in it.
The current president of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), China is planning to organize a conference in the next few months. The matter of Jinping not being involved in the Rio summit came from Brazil, where officials told the media that Beijing informed the Brazil government that Jinping’s schedule is not matching the program.
China has not yet told the plan
During media briefing on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun refused to comment on reports about Jinping’s decision and said that information about China’s absence will be provided at the BRICS summit at the right time. China’s Foreign Ministry said that China supports the chairmanship of Brazil in BRICS.
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Although it is not clear why the Chinese President has decided to stay out of the BRICS summit in Rio, but the decision of Brazil not to support billions of dollars belt and road initiative (BRI) is restless in Beijing, which is the flagship program of President Jinping. After India, Brazil is the second country of BRICS to avoid joining Bri.