Both the G20 Leaders Summit and the APEC Leaders Summit have come to an end, and Chinese President Xi Jinping's trip abroad has come to an end.
It is worth noting that during the G20 summit, Xi Jinping formally met with 12 leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron, South Korean President Yoon Seok-yue, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Xi Jinping also had off-site informal conversations with the British Prime Minister and Canadian leaders.
However, public information shows that Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Modi (Narendra Modi) only shook hands for a few seconds at the G20 dinner. Until the end of the meeting, the two had no formal meeting arrangement or brief conversation arrangement.
This visit is Xi Jinping's first overseas visit after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He has met with leaders of almost all important countries in the world and the Asia-Pacific region.
India is not only an important emerging country, but also a country that plays a pivotal role in the region, and it is also a neighbor of China.
From the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to the G20, Xi Jinping and Modi only shook hands briefly, and there was no formal meeting, which is quite abnormal.
Xi Jinping has served as Chinese President since 2013. Before the epidemic, there were three forms of contact between Chinese and Indian leaders at the G20 summit. The first is direct meetings. For example, during the G20 summits in 2016 and 2018, Xi Jinping met with Modi.
One is to meet through the China-Russia-India mechanism.
For example, during the G20 summits in 2016, 2018, and 2019, the leaders of China, Russia and India held tripartite meetings.
One is through the BRICS mechanism.
During the G20 summit from 2013 to 2019, leaders of BRICS countries held informal or formal meetings.
The leaders of Russia and Brazil were absent from the G20 summit in 2022, and the China-Russia-India leaders’ summit and the BRICS leaders’ meeting during the summit were naturally not held.
However, Xi Jinping met with the South African president, but did not meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the leader of the BRICS countries participating in the G20.
On November 15, 2022, Xi Jinping met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Bali.
(Chinese Foreign Ministry)
In mid-September this year, Xi Jinping visited Central Asia for the first time in more than three years to participate in the summit of the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. At that time, Xi Jinping met with almost all the leaders of the SCO member states, but did not meet Modi.
India formally applied to join the SCO in 2014 and officially became a member of the SCO in 2017. Prior to this, during the SCO Leaders Summit from 2015 to 2019, both Xi Jinping and Modi met.
Some voices believe that the bloody conflict on the Sino-Indian Galwan border in 2020 will cause cracks in the relationship between the two countries, which is the reason why the leaders of China and India do not meet at international conferences.
However, recent negotiations between China and India have made remarkable progress.
On the eve of the Shanghai Cooperation Leaders' Summit in September, the first-line troops of the Chinese and Indian militaries in Ganandaban began to disengage in a synchronized and planned manner.
This is actually good news.
It was widely believed at the time that it would pave the way for the leaders of the two countries to meet.
As a result, the leaders of the two countries did not meet.
During the G20 summit, the spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in response to the question of whether the leaders of China and India will meet, "China and India maintain good relations, which is in the fundamental interests of the two countries and the two peoples. We also hope that the Indian side will Work with China to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, promote the stable and healthy development of China-India relations, and safeguard the common interests of China, India and the vast number of developing countries.”
The phrase "I hope that India will meet China halfway" is meaningful, and the state of the relationship between the two countries revealed is by no means a simple border conflict.
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