Viewed from the lens of China’s great power rivalry with the United States, analysts say Xi’s expected no-show at the G20 could also signal his disillusion with the existing global system of governance – and structures he sees as too dominated by American influence. Xi did attend the recent BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit. The final group statement did not single out Russia, but instead said “all states must refrain from the threat or use of force to seek territorial acquisition.”Ĭhina’s Xi had not missed a G20 for more than a decade, according to CNN’s Nectar Gan, who writes an interesting analysis about Xi’s apparent plan to reshape global governance. CNN’s Kevin Liptak notes that Biden and other Western leaders had to tone down a joint G20 statement regarding Russia’s war on Ukraine. In Vietnam, Biden forged deeper ties with the communist nation, announcing deals, including between Vietnam Airlines and the US company Boeing, meant to embed the US in the emerging market and invest in friendly countries, a strategy known as “friend-shoring.”Īt the G20 in New Delhi, Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appeared together and announced participation in the new India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor.ĬNN’s Nadeen Ebrahim notes in the Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter that the planned trade route will connect India to the Middle East and Europe “through railways and ports,” and could be viewed as a direct challenge to China’s yearslong One Belt, One Road effort to connect itself with the rest of the world.Īdds Ebrahim: “The ambitious plan shows that the US can count on its Middle East allies in its efforts to contain China’s rise, but also how the Gulf states try to find a balance between traditional allies like the US and emerging partners like China in what they see as a world order that is no longer unipolar.”īiden said the announcement of the trade route comes “at an inflection point in history” and that investment in infrastructure across developing countries will have a rippling effect across generations.Ī fraught statement of support for Ukraineīut the interests of these disparate countries are not always aligned. With both Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping absent from the G20 meeting in New Delhi over the weekend, Biden seized the opportunity to appear alongside the leaders of India and Saudi Arabia, two countries the US has criticized for their records on human rights but whose economic support it very much needs. Joe Biden has framed his presidency as a struggle of democracy versus autocracy and placed the US in opposition to Russia and China.
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