By Nandita Bose NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Only China can explain the reason for the absence of President Xi Jinping from the annual G20 summit in New Delhi ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSNEW DELHI - Only China can explain the reason for the absence of President Xi Jinping from the annual G20 summit in New Delhi this weekend, a U.S. official said on Saturday.
"It's incumbent upon the Chinese government to explain" why its leader"would or would not participate", Jon Finer, the U.S. deputy national security adviser, told reporters in the Indian capital. "Some have speculated China's absence indicates that it is giving up on the G20, building an alternative world order, that it will privilege groupings like the BRICS," Finer said.
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